Sentence examples for a hazardous pollutant from inspiring English sources

Mercury emissions from coal-burning plants are not regulated under federal law, though the Clinton administration had moved toward strict regulation by classifying mercury as a hazardous pollutant under the Clean Air Act in 2000.

However, MTBE was soon judged to be a hazardous pollutant of groundwater in some cases where reformulated gasoline leaked from transmission pipelines or underground storage tanks, and it was banned in several parts of the country.

The researchers focused on lead not only because it is a hazardous pollutant, More said, but also because it serves as a proxy for economic activity, ramping up when the economy is growing and tapering when it declines.

While no one maintains that carbon dioxide is a hazardous pollutant dangerous to local communities, Alegría De La Cruz, a lawyer for the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, said that carbon dioxide rules often have "co-benefits" in terms of controlling other, more immediately toxic air pollutants.

The European Water Framework Directive classifies diuron as one of the priority substances, being a hazardous pollutant [1].

This paper investigates the reactions taking place in dilute aqueous solutions of a hazardous pollutant (diuron) during irradiation.

Mercury is a highly hazardous pollutant with an estimated global natural mercury emission of 1,800-5,800 tons per annum [ 1] and global anthropogenic mercury emission to the atmosphere was estimated to be 2,190 tons in 2000 [ 2].

Finally, the performance of the proposed digital estimator is evaluated in an environmental hazard monitoring case study, where a simple bioremediation model describing the degradation of an organic hazardous pollutant is considered that exhibits nonlinear behavior coupled with parametric uncertainty.

The report comes two and a half months after an initial report by the same three lawmakers that found that 32.2 millions of gallons of fluids containing diesel, considered an especially hazardous pollutant because it contains benzene, were injected into the ground during hydrofracking by a dozen companies from 2005 to 2009, in possible violation of the drinking water act.

The European Union considers mercury as a priority and hazardous pollutant and defines a maximum permissible concentration of total mercury as low as 1 µg L−1 for drinking water and 5 µg L−1 for wastewater discharge [7].

If a toxic or hazardous pollutant were found to have truly beneficial effects at low dose, then that agent should be tested clinically, go through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDAapprovalval process, and be regulated as a pharmaceutical for those who might benefit from its use.