Sentence examples for 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 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.

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.

Mercury (Hg) is a potent neurotoxin and priority hazardous pollutant (ATSDR 2007).

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

A Chinese medicinal fern Blechnum orientale (Linn) was separately collected from polluted and unpolluted sites to determine whether it could accumulate hazardous pollutants or not.

The collection of B. orientale for medicinal utilization from polluted areas should better be abandoned to reduce the intake of hazardous pollutants by human being.

Brown clouds also contain ozone and other hazardous pollutants.

These hazardous pollutants reduce air quality and can trigger respiratory problems.

Technology can also enhance safety in farming, for instance by automatically spraying orchards rather than exposing farm workers to potentially hazardous pollutants.