"dirty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Many of these dirty electric plants have avoided pollution controls for decades.
- The plan also calls for the repowering of old and dirty plants to stop pollution in urban neighborhoods.
- As utilities bought more power from the independents, they generated less from their own older, dirtier plants.
- Over the long run, such savings could mean less pollution, because the dirtiest plants could be used less or not at all.
- Competitors also argued that it protected older, dirtier plants, while preventing cleaner ones from being built.
- That could leave some of the dirtiest plants completely undisturbed for the next 14 years.
- Instead of building new, cleaner plants, many companies simply patched and upgraded their old, dirty plants.
- A dirty plant can buy pollution rights from a clean plant, for example.
- But dirtier coal-fired plants want to avoid carbon dioxide controls as long as possible.
- "The only general exception to this would be if relatively dirty coal-fired plants are used, relatively near to cities."
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