"Clean coal" is a term coined by the industry decades ago, referring to its efforts to reduce local pollution.

“清洁煤”是由行业在几十年前创造的术语，指行业为了减少当地的污染而作的努力。

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Lucchini's team, which had already planned to examine 300 middle schoolers for neural effects of local pollution, included a smell assay in the tests.

卢基尼小组已计划对三百名中学生做检查，分析当地污染物对其神经造成的影响，这些检查包括嗅觉测试。

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Coal from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming tends to be low in sulfur, for example, allowing power plants to burn more without exceeding local pollution limits.

来自蒙大拿粉河盆地和怀俄明州的煤炭含硫量低，可保证发电厂不超出本地排污限制。

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The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency,or EPA, lists stormwater as the primary cause of water pollution in the United States, and encourages local communities to develop management plans to treat run-off before it pollutes their rivers, lakes or streams.

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Boosting energy-efficiency and the use of renewables not only helps secure energy supplies and cuts local pollution, but also helps keep carbon emissions in check too.

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But most objections focus on local pollution.

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In both countries water and sewerage systems need to be vastly expanded, and governments in both countries are also coming under intense public pressure to curb what are often appalling levels of local pollution from factories and power plants.

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