'polluting' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb (e.g. "The factory is polluting the river") or an adjective (e.g. "The polluting factory is causing environmental damage").
The rubbish was also polluting the river where the villagers collect water.
The increased energy demand is met by reserve energy generation, such as oil, which is expensive and polluting.
One citizens group, A Port Lands Initiative Mumbai Movement (formed by Aam Admi Party leader Meera Sanyal and others), wants to restrict dock activity and chuck out polluting industries like the coal yard.
So using face scrubs full of plastic microbeads or disposable wipes just make you look like you're time efficient and keen to exfoliate (no mention that you're irreversibly polluting the ocean).
It is irresponsible to destroy these habitats in a few years to facilitate the extraction of a finite and highly polluting energy resource".
Our aim must be to de-couple economic growth from polluting and unsustainable resource use," said the environment audit committee's chairwoman, Joan Walley.
Related: UK energy bill subsidies driving boom in polluting diesel farms Everything from the air conditioning in the lounge to the ice coolers in the corridors and the fridges in the kitchens can be turned down at a moment's notice if the national electricity system requires.
What does a tax-avoiding, polluting, privatising corporation have to do to get its way with the British government?
"Experience suggests the government will choose badly, be lobbied extensively and will not have enough information," says Guy Newey of Policy Exchange, a think-tank.A more rational way to encourage investment in low-polluting electricity generation would be to levy a tax on polluters.
Professor Jeffery rightly identifies coal and tar sands as two of the worst-polluting forms of fossil fuel energy.
Last week the Church of England announced it was moving its money out of the most-polluting fossil fuels, while the Methodists have ruled out future investments in coal and tar sands.
