industrial emissions
Manufacturing air pollutants
Industrial emissions are pollutants released into the environment by manufacturing, power generation, and other industrial processes.
These include gases like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and chemical byproducts discharged into air or water.
The term appears frequently in discussions of climate change and environmental regulation: The factory was fined for exceeding its permitted industrial emissions.
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- smoke stacksTall industrial exhaust pipes
- particulate matterFine airborne solid fragments
- acid rainPolluted atmospheric moisture falling
- sulfur dioxideSO₂ gas compound
air pollution · factory floor · scrubbers · pollution control · methane · carbon dioxide · carbon footprint · heavy metals · steel manufacturing · black lung · ocean acidification · oil refineries · respiratory diseases · nitrogen oxides · cap-and-trade · paper mills · greenhouse gases · ozone layer
- air pollutionsmog, air pollution, emissions, air pollutants, pollutants
- pollutionair pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, smog, toxic waste
- hazardsfire hazard, fire hazards, toxin, contamination, tripping hazard
- Air Pollutantssmoke, smog, soot, exhaust, fumes
- emissionsemissions, CO2, CO2 emissions, carbon footprint, greenhouse gases
- exposureschemical exposure, air pollution, pesticides, heavy metals, toxins
industrial emissionscarbon sequestration
Removing and storing atmospheric CO2
carbon capture · clean air · emissions reduction · air purification · carbon sinks
industrial emissionsbiological processes
Functions sustaining living organisms