Our air quality now suffers from the effects of pollutants emitted directly from our cars.

我们的空气质量一直受到汽车排放污染物的影响。

Teresa, you wrote in your article about how these contaminants could affect lungs.

特蕾莎，你中提到过这污染物对肺部的影响。

As a pollutant, their impact is much lower than less tangible menaces.

作为污染物，它们的影响远远小于那不那么显眼的威胁。

To exacerbate the pollutants from all these vehicles, there are seven existing coal-fired power plants and five more planned plants all within a 100-kilometer radius of the city.

所有这车辆产生的污染物之外，该市 100 公里的半径，现有的 7 座燃煤电厂和另外 5 座计划中的电厂都加剧了污染物带来的环境影响。

A rise in pollutants would also affect water and soil quality due to acid deposition, which can occur in the form of acid rain, snow, fog, or even dust.

由于酸沉降，污染物的增加也会影响水和土壤质量，它可能以酸雨、雪、雾甚至灰尘的形式出现。

All this time I'd focused on the long-term environmental risk when I should have been up in arms about the immediate health impact of pollutants in the air.

所有这段时间，我一直关注长期的环境风险，却忽视了空气中污染物对健康的即时影响。