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  • noun Plural form of depleter.

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Examples

  • The EPA's most-wanted fugitive list is filled with people who smuggled ozone-depleters, dumped toxins into the water supply, and committed other criminal acts of despoilment (The EPA notes: "Do not attempt to apprehend any of these individuals").

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Expanding the Montreal Protocol to address the heat-trapping properties of replacements for ozone-depleters or cutting emissions of heat-trapping soot or black carbon are two ideas being floated.

    Bill Chameides: Can We Put a Brake on Homely Emissions? 2009

  • Expanding the Montreal Protocol to address the heat-trapping properties of replacements for ozone-depleters or cutting emissions of heat-trapping soot or black carbon are two ideas being floated.

    Bill Chameides: Can We Put a Brake on Homely Emissions? 2009

  • Expanding the Montreal Protocol to address the heat-trapping properties of replacements for ozone-depleters or cutting emissions of heat-trapping soot or black carbon are two ideas being floated.

    Bill Chameides: Can We Put a Brake on Homely Emissions? 2009

  • The petitioner, the American Agriculture Movement, a group representing small family farmers, argues that if industry has to get rid of its ozone depleters, the government ought to clean up its act, too.

    A Major Polluter? 2008

  • Hot air and self-congratulation are ozone depleters.

    Planet Gore 2008

  • Hot air and self-congratulation are ozone depleters.

    Planet Gore 2008

  • We created another problem by replacing the ozone depleters with chemicals that cause global warming, and now we need to replace these because they are going to be banned. "

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Scientific American: 2009

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