The results suggested that leachate could be a potential pollutant in term of high organic load and biological pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed revising its standards for arsenic, a cancer-causing pollutant, in drinking water.
In the troposphere, the atmospheric layer that goes from the ground up to about six miles, ozone produced by combustion is a major pollutant in smog.
A study of benzene pollution in six European cities found that people were exposed to more of the pollutant in their homes than outside of it.
A study at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, published in Nature, found high concentrations of a type of organic pollutant in sludge from four parts of the country.
While plastic hasn't historically been seen as a pollutant in the US, California's pioneering 2008 "nurdle law," which specifically names pre-production plastic pellets (nurdles) as a pollutant, is beginning to change that.
Italy and UK both a similar proportion of diesel cars, but the NO2 problem in Italy is also compounded by industrial sources of the pollutant in urban and suburban areas, experts at the EEA said.
Sheldon Bunin Jackson Heights, Queens, May 6, 2009 To the Editor: Re "The Torture Debate: The Lawyers" (editorial, May 7): There remains one dangerous pollutant in the generally clean and open air President Obama's administration has brought to our country.
Winterkorn stepped down as CEO of the carmaker in late September, insisting he did not know about the software defeat device, which made diesel cars appear less pollutant in test situations than in real life.
The Obama administration announced on Thursday new rules to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry almost in half – tackling a powerful climate pollutant in the president's final months in the White House.
Environmental tobacco smoke, also called secondhand smoke, is an indoor air pollutant in many homes, despite widespread knowledge about the harmful effects of smoking.
