Pollution can occur from a number of sources: garbage and industrial debris ; the transportation of petroleum in tankers, increasing the probability of large oil spills ; small oil spills created by large and small vessels, which flush bilge water into the ocean.

Growing concerns, both environmental and economic, from cites and towns as well as sportsman and other local groups, and senators such as Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, led to passage of extensive legislation, notably the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an agreement to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of persistent organic pollutants ( POPs ) in order to reduce their transboundary fluxes so as to protect human health and the environment from adverse effects.

Pollution started from the prehistoric times when man created the first fires.

Pollution became a popular issue after World War II, due to radioactive fallout from atomic warfare and testing.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their Transboundary Fluxes is an agreement to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of volatile organic compounds in order to reduce their transboundary fluxes so as to protect human health and the environment from adverse effects.

Water related conventions are United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ( UNCCD ), International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Ramsar Convention.

Pollution from farms and urban areas took a heavy toll on the river's environment, and heavy irrigation withdrawals sometimes resulted in massive fish kills.

" The United States Environmental Protection Agency report dated October 2002 and released in December 2002 titled " Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster " authored by the EPA Office of Research and Development in Washington states that dioxin levels recorded at a monitoring station on Park Row near City Hall Park in New York between October 12 and 29, 2001, averaged 5. 6 parts per trillion, or nearly six times the highest dioxin level ever recorded in the U. S. Dioxin levels in the rubble of the World Trade Centers were much higher with concentrations ranging from 10 to 170 parts per trillion.

Pollution and lack of vegetation, especially trees, can cause urban areas to suffer from poor environment, but no general statement about environmental quality can be made to apply to all rural and urban areas.

* Post-Soviet Legacy: Aral Sea Pollution from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

: Pollution of coastal waters from waste disposal by ships ; soil erosion ; illegal solid waste disposal threatens contamination of aquifers

Pollution of Lake Victoria is mainly due to discharge of raw sewage into the lake, dumping of domestic and industrial waste, and fertiliser and chemicals from farms.

Pollution, eutrophication, habitat destruction caused by land reclamation, and intense overfishing have resulted in a collapse of stocks, and a decline of trawl catch per unit of effort ( CPUE ) from 138. 8kg / net. hr to 11. 2 kg / net. hr from 1959 to 1998.

Starting in 1999, the Ukrainian government has been collecting an ecological tax, officially known as Environmental Pollution Fee (), which is collected from all polluting entities, whether it's one-time or ongoing pollution and regardless of whether the polluting act was legal or illegal at the time.

* WHO-Europe reports: Health Aspects of Air Pollution ( 2002 ) ( PDF ) and " Answer to follow-up questions from CAFE ( 2003 ) ( PDF )

In 1982 he was among those grumbling about " spiritual pollution " ( an " Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign " was organised in late 1983 ), as the sense of freedom spread from economics into China's social cultural, and threatened China's political status quo.

In the United States, for example, the relevant implementation legislation is the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

* International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto ( MARPOL 73 / 78

* Minamata disease-Chapter from Industrial Pollution in Japan by Dr Jun Ui

In Japan, a disease called Yokkaichi zensoku ( Yokkaichi Asthma ) derives its name from the city, and it is considered one of the Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan.

* Francis Feates CB, Professor of Environmental Engineering at UMIST from 1991-95, Director of the HM Inspectorate of Pollution from 1989 – 91

On 22 March 2008, a report for the " Tamil Nadu Pollution Board " prepared by the Nagpur-based " National Environmental Engineering Research Institute " found that residents of the SIPCOT area of Cuddalore were at least 2000 times more likely than their counterparts to contract cancer in their lifetimes due to exposure to high levels of toxic gases from chemical industries in the region.

Pollution can include sediment deposition and eutrophication from sewage, industrial byproducts and contaminants like PCBs and heavy metals ( for example, copper, zinc ), runoff of organophosphates from agricultural areas, anti-fouling chemicals used in harbors and marinas ( for example, TBT and creosote ) and land-based pathogens like fecal coliform bacteria.

Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light.

Other haloalkanes, such as the hydrochlorofluorocarbon 1, 1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane ( HCFC-141b ), were used as interim replacements until their phase out under the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control ( IPPC ) directive on greenhouse gases in 1994 and by the Volatile Organic Compounds ( VOC ) directive of the EU in 1997 ( See: Haloalkanes ).

Pollution and habitat change such as river damming appear to be the primary causes for riverine burbot populations, while pollution and the adverse effects of invasive species have the greatest influence on lacustrine populations.

The latter have been included because it is arguable that the progressive nature of these reforms ( such as the Water Pollution Law, which was partly a Republican initiative ) was compatible with the liberalism of the Fair Deal.

The reserves are addressing water quality through intensive abiotic monitoring of estuarine habitats through the System-Wide Monitoring Program, working with farmers to develop and monitor best management practices from agriculture, monitoring the impacts of canopy cover on salmon habitats, addressing sedimentation impacts into coastal streams by working with adjacent land owners and evaluating land use impacts through tools such as the Non-Point Source Pollution, Erosion and Control ( NSPECT ) tool.

Captain Pollution is weakened when he is in contact with pure elements such as water or sunlight, while he gains power from contact with pollutants ( and is later shown to gain power without limit when in contact with pollutants after his resurrection ).

Pollution from the city of Popayán, seven gold mines that also add industrial pollutants such as mercury, some 8 sand mills, plus a couple of mines of coal and bauxite.

The two share a distinct similarity in that both hunt animals ; while Elmer hunts them for sport, Elmyra hunts them to love and baby them to death ( sometimes literally )-- often even diapering the animals ( such as Plucky in the episode Pollution Solution ).

Pollution is exacerbated by several city facilities such as factories and oil refineries.

The institute houses laboratories such as Sand Laboratory, Metallography Laboratory, Flexible Manufacturing System ( FMS ) Laboratory, Non-Destructive and Mechanical Testing Laboratories, Spectroscopy Laboratory, Environmental Monitoring and Pollution Control Laboratory, Metrology Laboratory, and a Forging Laboratory.

Different countries also use different names for their indices such as Air Quality Health Index, Air Pollution Index and Pollutant Standards Index.

Pollution such as this occurs particularly in developing nations.

* Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site — DDT

Pollution is also of concern.

The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, often abbreviated as Air Pollution or CLRTAP, is intended to protect the human environment against air pollution and to gradually reduce and prevent air pollution, including long-range transboundary air pollution.

He is the author or editor of several books including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution ( 1970 ), The Ocean in Human Affairs ( 1989 ), Global Climate Change ( 1989 ), The Greenhouse Debate Continued ( 1992 ), and Hot Talk, Cold Science ( 1997 ).

Pollution is the adding-of / added light itself, in analogy to added sound, carbon dioxide, etc.

China is a party to the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Endangered Species treaty, the Hazardous Wastes treaty, the Law of the Sea, the International Tropical Timber Agreements of 1983 and 1994, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and agreements on Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, and Wetlands protection.

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or Their Transboundary Fluxes by at Least 30 % is an agreement to provide for a 30 % reduction in sulphur emissions or transboundary fluxes by 1993.

The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions is an agreement to provide for a further reduction in sulphur emissions or transboundary fluxes.

International agreements: Togo is party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution ( MARPOL 73 / 78 ), Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling

Vanuatu is party to a number of international agreements, including agreements on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, and Ship Pollution.

Pollution is the prime example most economists think of when discussing externalities.

The uniqueness of the Seychelles ' ecology is reflected in the US $ 1. 8 million project of the Global Environment Trust Fund of the World Bank ( see Glossary ) entitled Biodiversity Conservation and Marine Pollution Abatement, that began in 1993.

Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre, le Cedre ( Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution ) and the French Polar Institute.

Another of the major responsibilities of the Army Corps of Engineers is administering the permitting program under Section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972.

Sewage treatment is provided by the San Jose / Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant a joint powers agency of which both districts are members.

Lorton is also the home to the Noman M. Cole, Jr., Pollution Control Plant.

Marpol 73 / 78 is the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978.