Sentence examples for polluted ground from inspiring English sources

A few readers suggested we might be farming polluted ground.

It also passed a bill phasing out methyl tertiary butyl ether, a gasoline additive that has polluted ground water supplies.

For 15 months, the state program that is supposed to clean up toxic waste sites has not received a penny for investigating and sanitizing polluted ground because of a political standoff between Gov. George E. Pataki and Assembly Democrats.

In recent months, opponents repeatedly tried to portray Pacific Gas & Electric as a corporate villain, reminding reporters and politicians that it was the company that polluted ground water in a California town, in a case made famous by the movie "Erin Brockovich".

The area where the Olympic Park now stands used to be a wasteland of fetid drains, derelict factories and polluted ground.

Cities are constantly migrating and metabolizing, leaving behind industrial legacy and environmental degradation to be remediated by future generations; legacies of toxic waste, polluted ground waters, sealed soils, powsy land and degraded ecosystems.

Some states are abandoning an alternative, methyl-tertiary butyl ether, because it can pollute ground water.

This process pollutes ground water, basins and soils and affects rural communities' drinking water, as well as local fauna and flora, and marine life in coastal areas.

The hydraulic fracturing of shale rock, which has been blamed for causing earthquakes and polluting ground water and has generated fierce opposition from environmentalists, should proceed as long as it is monitored carefully and is accompanied by measures to minimise carbon emissions, said the chairman of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith of Finsbury.

There are some environmental concerns, however, as it is thought the drilling could pollute ground water supplies.

Land filling of polyethylene could result in plastic additives such as phthalates and various dyes polluting ground water.