Example sentences for: downwind

How can you use “downwind” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The New York Times leads with the development that Maine, Massachusetts, New York and several other "downwind" states are pressuring the EPA to crack down on Midwest utilities to reduce current high levels of wind-borne smog.

  • Presumably these indigenous plants refrain from sending their seed downwind into other areas where they do not belong.

  • In general, Section 126 authorizes downwind States or political subdivisions to petition the Administrator to find that certain upwind sources emit air pollutants in amounts that contribute significantly to the petitioner's air pollution problems.

  • EPA has taken two actions to address the contribution of interstate transport of NOx emissions to downwind ozone nonattainment problems, and both of these actions affect the power sector.

  • In 1998, EPA finalized the NOx SIP call, which now requires 19 states and the District of Columbia (whose emissions significantly contribute to downwind ozone nonattainment problems) to revise their SIPs to control summertime NOx emissions.


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