Sentence examples for polluting air from inspiring English sources

Exide operated on a temporary permit for 30 years despite outdated pollution controls, and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control knew for years that the company was polluting air, soil and water but failed to put a stop to it.

Such activities as obstructing a public road, polluting air and water, operating a house of prostitution, and keeping explosives are public nuisances.

Speculators with government connections have put up ugly steel-and-glass tower blocks with glass façades that increase the need for polluting air conditioning.

It is the human animal that inflicts the most rapacious assault on the environment by polluting air and waterways and despoiling the forests because of its need for more lumber for more developments.

Other garbage that is supposed to be recycled according to European law may be simply burned or left to rot, polluting air and water and releasing the heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.

It is not impossible to solve this problem, if only because a real farm bears virtually no resemblance to an animal factory, where pigs and poultry are concentrated in the thousands and tens of thousands, often polluting air and water alike.

Rivers and lakes are heavily polluted; air pollution causes many premature deaths; water tables are falling; deserts are expanding.

Forced to breathe polluted air, we sicken.

But how does polluted air collect on top?

Typically, a public nuisance is just that: polluted air or water, say, or traffic.

Who pays the health costs associated with traffic deaths and polluted air?