The phrase "a polluting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that causes pollution or has a negative environmental impact.
Example: "The factory was known for being a polluting entity in the community, affecting air quality and local wildlife."
Alternatives: "an environmentally harmful" or "a contaminating".
Would New Yorkers consent to 30 X-rays every year to benefit a polluting industry in Nevada?
In some of the samples, the researchers observed something unexpected: in the absence of oxygen, a polluting form of nitrogen called ammonium was transformed into harmless nitrogen gas.
A Beijing newspaper reports that plastic film widely used in agriculture in China is merging with the soil it covers, creating a polluting mixture of plastic and earth that can be "tens of layers deep".
At the time, Guangcheng was a medical student fighting for the closure of a polluting paper mill near his home and applying for a British grant to build a deep-well in his village for drinking water.
"Sending a polluting industry into our most economically impoverished communities is a violation of environmental justice," Sandra Steingraber, the founder of an umbrella group called New Yorkers Against Fracking, said in a statement.
This paper investigates the novelty of using waste cooking oil (WCO), which is frequently found as a polluting waste material in landfills and rivers from the food industry, to rejuvenate the bituminous binder.
First, energy, a polluting good, is used both as a factor of production and a final consumption good; second, the wage is determined endogenously while labor of different individual types remain homogeneous.
He said Mr. Bush's promise as a candidate to regulate carbon dioxide as a polluting greenhouse gas "was instantly transformed by the inauguration into a promise to the generators of CO2 that it would not be regulated at all".
Windows of opportunity for new coal investments are closing, but if these projects go ahead, our exports could be locking other countries into a polluting energy trajectory for decades to come.
2767, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §9601 et seq., is whether a parent corporation that actively participated in, and exercised control over, the operations of a subsidiary may, without more, be held liable as an operator of a polluting facility owned or operated by the subsidiary.
Burnside was born in Dunfermline in 1955, to a mother fast realising she'd made a terrible mistake and a father who would cast a polluting shadow over his son's life well beyond his own death from a heart attack between the bar and the cigarette machine of the Silver Band Club many years later.
