pollute
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She also said - as someone who farms herself - farmers have a responsibility to not pollute the river, along with people and businesses.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
In addition, they say, the regulations also allow for recycling technologies that pollute, such as chemical recycling, which the law as originally drafted forbids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
He said that the project wouldn’t pollute the water and that Missouri has taken measures to protect ratepayers from financing the utility upgrades needed for data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
If we want you to pollute less, we’ll tax carbon.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026
I won’t pollute my insides with Bluberridazzlepops or muffins or scritchscratchy shards of toast, either.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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The gunk washes into storm drains and pollutes creeks, rivers and beaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
The rubbish gets into the watercourses that criss-cross the capital and, from there, finds its way into the Congo River where it harms wildlife and pollutes the water.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Uncollected and improperly disposed waste pollutes waterways and clogs drain systems.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
People are generally in favor of clean energy and against energy production that pollutes, such as coal-burning power plants.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
The automobile gives us great mobility, but pollutes our atmosphere.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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But he said if waterways become polluted, "you're going to get the situation you're in now".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Your bank account can’t protect you if you are breathing polluted air or rely on a dysfunctional health care system.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
These included relatively polluted clouds, shallow warm clouds, and clouds sampled below their deeper convective regions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Kinjo says that reefs flanking his seaside farm consist entirely of corals he cultivated, with their natural peers "no longer able to keep up with a tremendous increase in stress" in the anthropogenically polluted ocean.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The city was noisy and dirty, the weather murky, the air often polluted with a yellow smog from the new factories and from all the fireplaces burning dirty coal.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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That makes them extremely difficult to extinguish and exceptionally polluting.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
But their desire to build these AI-processing plants faster than ever has resulted in sprawling, polluting, noisy, thirsty complexes more reminiscent of the industrial revolution than the era of artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Others are buying bigger but relatively inefficient and polluting natural-gas turbines, or even repurposed jet engines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The largely rural state has been a chemical industry centre since East German times, but many highly polluting and outdated factories were dismantled in the years after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
The plan was to use his big day-in court to expose Dusty Muleman’s illegal polluting.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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