Sentence examples for polluted lands from inspiring English sources

Bay Street Promenade, for example, was built on heavily polluted lands once covered by a paint plant.

The upgrading is being done largely with private capital, rather than government expenditure, reflecting changes in recent years that have made redevelopment of polluted lands more attractive to developers.

The next bill, outside of budget-related bills, was an initiative the governor sent over in late April that would bolster efforts to resuscitate polluted lands known as brownfields.

Mr. Suozzi, 38, is running on his record as the four-term mayor of Glen Cove, highlighting the city's improved financial outlook, the revitalization of its downtown and waterfront, the closing of an incinerator and the cleanup of polluted lands.

Then, until the 1970s, the city was the industrial cradle of Northern California, full of steel mills and factories, until the heavy industry migrated overseas, leaving polluted lands in its wake.

Assemblyman Joseph Charles Jr., a Democrat and chairman of the caucus, said that Mrs. Whitman had compromised the state's environment through budget cuts to environmental programs, by not dedicating enough money to reclaim polluted lands known as brownfields and by not giving enough support to city parks and greenery.

But its industrial heritage also left a different legacy: polluted land along the waterfront.

Chinese citizens have become increasingly irate about food and beverages tainted with pesticides, illegal preservatives and additives, as well as industrial waste and heavy metals from polluted land and air.

The golf course was built largely on fallow, polluted land that was once crowded with factories: holes No. 4 and No. 5 were the slag pit for a company that made automobile brakes.

No Greater Clarity for Brownfields The future of a state program that provides tax credits for companies that decontaminate and redevelop polluted land appears to be as uncertain as ever.

The concept of using trees and plants to purify polluted land, a process called phytoremediation, is beginning to take root in America's $30 billion-a-year remediation industry.