"decrease pollution" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to talk about reducing the negative impact on the environment, or to describe any reduction of pollutants, toxins, or other contaminants in the air, water, or land. For example, "The government has implemented new regulations designed to decrease pollution in major cities."
"It's a classic dilemma: when you build more highways, do you decrease pollution or increase traffic?
An aircraft engine that uses a novel gearing system could decrease pollution and increase the energy efficiency of air travel.
So far, several regulatory tools have been used to decrease pollution.
It also includes calls for voluntary reductions in emissions that scientists blame for global climate changes and subsidies for new technology to decrease pollution.
The scenario analysis demonstrated that impervious rate adjustment has the potential to reduce runoff peak and decrease pollution loading.
While the National Park Service's decision to ban snowmobiles from most national parks will decrease pollution (news article, April 27), it will not address the problem that started this controversy: the killing of Yellowstone's bison.
The likely benefits are no surprise — less foreign oil, cost savings, job creation, decreased pollution.
Traffic is reduced, speed increases, honking decreases, pollution is reduced, funds are raised for the city and some people might even get some exercise.
The lawmakers instead voted, 51 to 45, for a Republican alternative that would let the rules go into effect while a different study, one that would look at the increased, as well as decreased pollution, is under way.
3. Research various contexts for which scientists and researchers may want to genetically alter trees; assess the validity of altering trees as a method of decreasing pollution and/or increasing production of tree-related products.
"Imagine tapping into this inexhaustible supply of energy right here in our own state, lowering the cost of electricity, decreasing pollution, reducing reliance on foreign fuel," Gordon said recently as he paced his company's boardroom in downtown Boston.
