How to Use polluting in a Sentence

polluting

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  • Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world.
    — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 22 May 2022
  • Lastly, Rockström says, COP26 should be the end of the line for the most polluting fossil fuel.
    — David Vetter, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • These began in California in 2009 with the goal of buying the oldest, most polluting cars in the state and crushing them to take them off the roads.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
  • While less polluting than coal or oil, burning gas still emits carbon.
    — Anna Shiryaevskaya, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2023
  • Pure Earth and Green Cross Switzerland have said lead battery recycling is the most polluting industry in the world.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The initial £5 fee has tripled in 20 years with an extra charge tacked on for the most polluting vehicles entering a Low Emission Zone.
    — Curbed, 31 May 2023
  • For example: in a bid to move away from Russian gas, some European countries have turned back to coal—an even more polluting fuel.
    — David Vetter, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • There’s the Paris model, whereby restrictions keep out the most polluting vehicles, a bar that’s steadily raised.
    — Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The companies are also seeking a source of energy that is considered less polluting than oil and coal.
    — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Consider phasing out that gas stove and switching to induction cooking, which is less polluting and better for your health.
    — John Wogan Carmen Winant, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Given the already monumental task of greening existing air travel, why add an even more polluting fleet to the mix?
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
  • For decades, the country’s soaring power demand was fulfilled largely by coal, the most polluting fossil fuel.
    — Nadja Popovich, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Cows, sheep and pigs emit a surprising amount of greenhouse gases, making livestock farming one of the more polluting areas of agriculture.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 9 July 2024
  • Countries do want to get rid of coal, especially the more polluting lignite variety.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
  • The project is one example of a global gamble, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, being made by investors including some of the most polluting industries in the world.
    — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Even before the war, Ukraine faced challenges from highly polluting industries.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Combined with last year’s announcement, there are now 3,300 new vehicles on the road that are either zero-emission or powered by less polluting forms of fuel.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 26 June 2023
  • Heavy duty vehicles, including buses and trucks, are more polluting than cars but are also harder to electrify, due to their size and weight.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel, and its eventual phaseout was a major focus of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The fuel is more polluting than regular gasoline, but cheaper.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 11 May 2022
  • Associations were even stronger when the most polluting plants, used to provide peak power, were considered.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Trains are a valuable alternative to clogged freeways and can be less polluting and more energy efficient.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Photo: fabian strauch/Shutterstock Steel is one the world’s most polluting industries, but Europe is leaping forward in making the metal green.
    — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • While the fuel's share of the world’s power mix is forecast to decline as nations strive to hit net zero, opponents worry that any addition of new coal plants risks locking in the use of highly polluting power sources for decades more.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The reforms would create a ceiling on the nation's emissions and force Australia's 215 biggest polluting facilities to reduce their emissions over time.
    — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The carbon tax, to be phased in from 2026, will cover some of the most polluting industries: steel, aluminum, cement, fertilizer and electricity, as well as hydrogen.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But battery technology is still too heavy for planes, which will most likely need to rely primarily on alternative fuels to take off in a less polluting way.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This starts an atmospheric chain reaction that ends with a bunch of more stable – and non-polluting – molecules, some of which are recycled into new OH molecules.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Taking on the challenge of establishing a less polluting economy will allow the U.S. to take a larger leadership role as these technologies develop and scale.
    — Ed Farrington, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Even with so many potential setbacks, some of the big changes Biden set in motion are likely to stick, as the cleaner, more efficient technologies become cheaper and more polluting sources of energy enter their final days.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 23 July 2024

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