Sentence examples for to less polluting from inspiring English sources

Once S.U.V. drivers tire of the inconvenience, they might be persuaded to switch to less polluting vehicles.

I think what the Department of Environmental Protection wanted was for them to upgrade to less polluting engines.

Obama had a great phrase near the end of his speech: "Invest, divest" — that is, shift away from more to less polluting ways of doing business.

"Many Milanese residents and businesses had bought Euro 4 and Euro 5 vehicles, or put filters on their mufflers, so they could go into the center," Alessandro Morelli of the Northern League said, referring to less polluting cars.

*Some big manufacturers like Alcoa, which release other heat-trapping gases, have been shifting to less polluting methods, partly to address the climate issue but also because cost-effective improvements in industrial processes reduce heat-trapping emissions.

For another thing, emissions caps would effectively provide a subsidy to less polluting alternatives, one that would be harder for lobbyists to manipulate and that wouldn't require lawmakers to pick winners among various possible technologies.

Although individual exposures could change as people relocate, at the population level this should not affect the modelled exposures and health impacts as one household is generally replaced by another: some people may move to more polluted dwellings, whereas others may move to less polluted ones, but the average change in risk of lung cancer remains unaffected.

Mr. Greenstone also said he did not know how pollution in northern China affected the life expectancy for people not living there for their entire lives, or for residents of northern China who made frequent or long trips to less polluted areas.

The aim of the scheme, which, if successful, could be picked up by other local authorities, is to persuade people to choose less polluting cars.

He also chucked into the mix his "clean energy standard", a scheme to promote less polluting forms of electricity generation, even though it has nothing to do with oil imports (energy generation relies on coal, gas, nuclear or renewables, but not on oil, which is used almost exclusively for transport, heating and industry).None of this is new.

Back in the late-70's ethanol produced from corn was promoted as the perfect answer to the energy crisis: it was renewable, it was domestic, and it was supposed to be less polluting.