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How to use the word polluting in a Sentence?

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Then, the other aspect is, when you have a community of color that is a voluntary community, people aren’t forced to live there, those are communities that tend to have less of a voice, so decision makers place polluting sources in those communities because there’s not as much howling by people with power when they do. So those communities get the highways; they get the landfills; they get the fence lines.

Katherine Pruitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We ’ll keep polluting our drinking water if we do n’t stop the uses of these chemicals.

Liz Hitchcock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Crypto mining firms are polluting communities, they’re straining power grids, and they’re driving up utility costs in communities from Texas to New York.

Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All our regulators need to get in the game, crypto mining firms are polluting communities, they’re straining power grids, and they’re driving up utility costs in communities from Texas to New York.

Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Europe is experiencing the warmest January days ever recorded and communities around the world are grappling with extreme weather events supercharged by the climate crisis, meanwhile, the rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors.

Klara Maria Schenk

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

These funding opportunities to replace older, heavily polluting buses will result in healthier air for many of the 25 million American children who rely on school buses, many of whom live in overburdened and underserved communities.

Michael Regan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Enforcement of the rule's provisions is desperately needed, as coal plants have demonstrated they don't care about polluting water or putting people's health at risk, and they have taken full advantage of the Trump EPA's hands-off policy, the result is nationwide pollution of water at coal plants.

Lisa Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The presence of hundreds of those being paid to push the toxic interests of polluting fossil fuel companies, will only increase the skepticism of climate activists who see these talks as more evidence of global leaders' dithering and delaying, the scale of the challenge ahead means there is no time for us to be diverted by greenwashing or meaningless corporate promises not matched by delivery. It's time for politicians to show they are serious about ending the influence of big polluters over political decision-making and commit to a future where expert and activist voices are given center stage.

Murray Worthy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a turning point in history, this case is unique because it is the first time a judge has ordered a large polluting corporation to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement. This ruling may also have major consequences for other big polluters.

Roger Cox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The country can't afford to be locking in to a hugely polluting, expensive and carbon-intensive mega project at a time when — more than ever — we need to act against the climate crisis, protect the resilience of vulnerable, water scarce areas and preserve our limited state funds and resources for projects with positive outcomes and benefits for all.

Michelle Koyama

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We use the batteries to take care of these peaks. When the engines produce excess energy, this is transferred into the batteries. This secures smooth and optimal running of the engines at all time, significantly reducing fuel consumption and Read MoreMaritime emissions, lNG is substantially less polluting than conventional diesel fuel and utilizing LNG as a component in different hybrid set-ups is a major step towards achieving Hurtigruten's ultimate ambition of sailing emission free.

Roald Amundsen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

China has traditionally had lower steel production costs than other steel producing regions such as Europe due to lower labor and raw material costs, the use of cheaper but more polluting induction furnaces, while not being subjected to stringent carbon pricing mechanisms, also provides cost advantage.

Luke Fletcher

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The question which remains to be answered is whether there is enough political will to aggressively fight the health emergency India faces today and move away from polluting fuels and practices.

Pujarini Sen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The next few years are going to be key in the fight against global warming, are we going to get to work installing clean energy, or stick to old polluting sources? If we don't act quickly, we better get to work preparing for many severe consequences of a much hotter world.

Dargan Frierson

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Only five cities - Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton - will have new powers to charge polluting vehicles to enter new clean air zones, councils in the dozens of other English cities currently exceeding EU pollution limits must also be given the option of using such powers if their communities support action.

Neil Parish

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is 100% sustainable, electric, non-polluting vehicle, and it can be as dynamic as 1,000 horsepower.

Richard Kim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You don't have to sacrifice anything for being sustainable, this is 100% sustainable, electric, non-polluting vehicle, and it can be as dynamic as 1,000 horsepower.

Richard Kim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The countries doing the polluting aren't going to stop, we aren't the ones causing climate change but we are the ones living with it.

Joseph Antoine

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's nothing more polluting than a freeway full of parked cars that are idled.

Jon Coupal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The State is not some magical organization that can solve these issues alone... It's really important that citizens understand they are responsible for polluting the bay and have a role to play in cleaning it up, these items that are on display didn't just fall into the bay, someone threw them there.

Fernanda Cortez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are prepared to reduce the use of coal, alleviate pollution caused by traffic, extend the use of new energy vehicles and ask more polluting plants to move out of Beijing, we promise the air quality will meet World Health Organisation standards by the start of the winter of 2022.

Mayor Wang Anshun

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The administration is strongly committed to the long-term reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, we are also fully committed to ending public financing for the most polluting power plants overseas, except in the poorest countries, and oppose language that would hinder implementation of the president's Climate Action Plan.

The White House

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are also fully committed to ending public financing for the most polluting power plants overseas, except in the poorest countries, and oppose language that would hinder implementation of the president's Climate Action Plan.

White House spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

First, they hold the homeland security funding bill hostage to immigration, now they want to hold the highway bill hostage to big polluting Canadian special interests.

Barbara Boxer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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