For example, a water body may be more polluted as people add more pollutants to it, but as a result, ecological processes that remove pollutants are generally doing more; thus, the service values also increase.
The Bush administration plans next week to adopt a rule that will allow thousands of industrial plants to make substantial upgrades -- and emit more pollutants -- without having to install costly pollution-control devices.
It is possible that the fish and invertebrates that turtles feed on in northern waters are more polluted, but the scientists point out that turtles that migrate eat more, and therefore consume more pollutants.
Children absorb more pollutants than adults.
His environmental agenda would put more arsenic in the water and more pollutants in the air.
It produces much less energy than gasoline while emitting more pollutants into the air.
The lawsuit asserts that Mexican trucks will generally emit more pollutants than American trucks.
The governor chose to enhance the state's automobile-emissions inspections to detect more pollutants.
Total levels of pollution in China's lakes, rivers and coastal waters still rose, however, as more pollutants continued to flow into them, the ministry said.
With unconventional oil, the damage tends to be higher all around — more land gets disturbed, more pollutants are produced, and more opportunities arise for contamination.
"EU policy has produced the opposite result to what it intended, and has exposed its population to more pollutants than was necessary".
