Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something that pollutes, especially a waste material that contaminates air, soil, or water.
Wiktionary
- n. A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
WordNet 3.0
- n. waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil
Examples
“SCOTUS cited CAA as clearly defining what a pollutant is and determined that CO2 was therefor a pollutant removing that argument.”
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“It was the Supreme Court, not the EPA, that decided in 2007 that carbon dioxide meets the definition of pollutant under the Clean Air Act—a law enacted by a democratically elected Congress and signed by a democratically elected President, George H.W. Bush.”
“In 1989, coal companies and the Edison Electric Institute hired Temple Barker and Sloane, a pro-industry research organization, to conduct an economic analysis of the effects of a cap & trade system on sulphur dioxide (SO2), the main pollutant that causes acid rain.”
“When we burn fossil fuel, excess carbon dioxide (CO2), the chief global warming pollutant, is released to the atmosphere.”
“The main pollutant was suspended particulate matter, which is usually attributed to coal burning and automotive exhaust.”
“The display of the empirical evidence on the local pollutant is intended to enable and change typical lay-expert communication patterns, by raising the standards of evidence, or at least changing who produces this evidence.”
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“Americans represent 5 percent of the world’s population but contribute 45 percent of the world’s emission of carbon dioxide, the main pollutant that causes global warming, according to a report by the nonprofit group Environmental Defense.”
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“EPA , a 5-4 majority broadly rewrote the definition of "pollutant," but it also narrowly held that "EPA no doubt has significant latitude as to the manner, timing, content, and coordination of its regulations" our emphasis.”
“However, when CO2 is defined as a pollutant, I have to worry.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“Or rather, CO2 has been politically classified as a pollutant, to achieve political ends.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pollutant’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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SEDE - technology+material+support
nuclear fuel, nuclear arsenal, nuclear equipment, AWACS, anti-missile shield, battlefield opera..., communication sys..., community communi..., control system, functionality log..., Missile Technolog..., NBC Warning and R... and 302 more...
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ENVI - water protection
population equiva..., absorptive proper..., abstraction rate, abundance, acaricide, accidental pollution, admixture, adsorption, agglomeration, algicide, alkalinity, angiosperms and 398 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
Tweets
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