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- noun Plural form of
pollution .
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(causing women to assail every man they meet, and supplicate and excite him to gratify their lustful passions, or who resort to means of sexual pollutions, which is impossible to describe without shuddering), together with spinal diseases and many disorders of the most distressing and disgusting character, {208} filling the bones with rottenness, and eating away the flesh by gangrenous ulcers, until the patient dies, a horrible mass of putridity and corruption.
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Allowed states to set higher energy standards then the govt. and has began regulating pollutions.
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Tremendous increase of human encroachment in the Lamar Valley with accompanying pollutions in the last century.
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With global pollutions trend lines escalating in the wrong direction, it's pretty clear that by the time the fossil guys wake up to the realities of what they're doing to the rest of us, it will very likely be too late to reverse the damage.
Mike Casey: Introducing: Deep Accountability Mike Casey 2012
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But I think Jon is way off base when he denies the connection between water pollutions--specifically pesticide pollution--and frog health.
Andrew Wetzler: Follow the Evidence and Save the Frogs Andrew Wetzler 2011
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Tremendous increase of human encroachment in the Lamar Valley with accompanying pollutions in the last century.
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But I think Jon is way off base when he denies the connection between water pollutions--specifically pesticide pollution--and frog health.
Andrew Wetzler: Follow the Evidence and Save the Frogs Andrew Wetzler 2011
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Sixteen cities including Pittsburgh and Atlanta also reported their lowest year-round particle pollutions levels since the ALA released its first State of the Air report in 2004.
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Sixteen cities including Pittsburgh and Atlanta also reported their lowest year-round particle pollutions levels since the ALA released its first State of the Air report in 2004.
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A 2008 study in the journal Science concluded that 40 percent of the world's oceans are now heavily impacted by human activities, including overfishing and varied forms of pollutions (oil, nutrient, plastic, chemical), while only 4 percent remain in a pristine state.
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