An article on March 11 about new federal regulations to control air pollution referred incorrectly to the relationship of soot and sulfur dioxide.
The last time I landed in Beijing was in January of this year, during a particularly bad stretch of pollution referred to as the "Airpocalypse".
The pollution incident refers to a large amount of pollutant leaked into the water suddenly, resulting in a rapid increase in pollutant concentrations, which may serious impact on the safety of water supply.
Light pollution commonly refers to excessive or obtrusive artificial light caused by bad lighting design.
The "cross-media pollution problem" refers to the unintended impacts in one environmental medium of environmental regulations implemented in another.
Les Blomberg, who directs the nonprofit Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, refers to unwanted noise as aural litter or audible trash —"That is how people experience community noise: as someone else's garbage thrown into their space," he says.
Increased levels of pollution (here referring to air pollution and water and soil contamination) were attributed to a number of sources, of which the most commonly cited were poultry farms and factories, traffic, open sewers and stagnant water, improper rubbish disposal, and pesticides.
The representative from one of the respondent NGOs explains the seriousness of industrial pollution by referring to the proportion of the industries that have primary waste treatment plant.
Air pollution abatement catalysis refers to catalytic technologies and processes for reducing emissions of environmentally unacceptable compounds.
