1.   The agency believes that investors will refuse to buy plants in the polluted region if they will also have to pay for cleaning up the environment.

2.   Condit has been campaigning to fight the growing smog problem in the Central Valley, which has become the most polluted region in the country.

3.   The finding comes from studies in heavily polluted regions of Eastern Europe.

4.   The center will help children from the industrially polluted regions of upper Silesia who suffer from leukemia and other cancers.