air pollution

Cultural  

1. The addition of harmful chemicals to the atmosphere. The most serious air pollution results from the burning of fossil fuels, especially in internal-combustion engines.

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Example Sentences

Rep. Robert Garcia represents a district that includes the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, now the single biggest source of L.A.’s air pollution.

From Los Angeles Times

Local air pollution authorities, possessing little power and even less solid science, singled out oil industries, factories, manufacturers and chemical companies, and they weren’t wrong — just looking through the opposite end of the telescope.

From Los Angeles Times

“It is the opinion of the Ford Motor Company that automobile exhaust gases are dissipated in the atmosphere quickly and do not present an air pollution problem.”

From Los Angeles Times

Last year, 7 million people around the world, 600,00 of them children, died from a slow-moving, silent and largely invisible killer: air pollution.

From Salon

He warned that a return to kerosene, coal and biomass - linked to serious heart and lung disease - would quickly worsen indoor air pollution.

From BBC