antipollution

[ an-tee-puh-loo-shuhn, an-tahy- ]

adjective

1. designed to prevent or reduce environmental pollution:

   antipollution laws; an antipollution campaign.

antipollution

/ ˌæntɪpəˈluːʃən /

adjective

1. (of measures, policies, etc) designed to combat pollution and its causes
2. opposed to pollution and its causes

   antipollution banners

Other Words From

• anti·pol·lution·ist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of antipollution¹

First recorded in 1920–25; anti- + pollution

Example Sentences

The EPA announced its latest antipollution rules in April and said carbon-capture technology would allow coal- and new gas-fired power plants to “achieve substantial reductions in carbon pollution at reasonable cost.”

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Despite an expensive and ambitious antipollution initiative, officials acknowledge that a single drenching downpour at an inopportune moment could send a surge of sewage into the waterway.

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The gas industry, she is convinced, is campaigning mightily because it worries about losing new markets, and losing the market share it already has to climate-change and antipollution rules.

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This year, a Times report on the 2020 wildfire season found that it not only offset decades of antipollution efforts, but also contributed to more than $19 billion in economic losses.

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“California values,” as its politicians like to proclaim, provided a bedrock on which stood the state’s resistance to federal rollbacks of antipollution and anti-discrimination regulations under then-President Trump.

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