(A) landfills polluting the water to polluting the air with incinerators
(B) landfills polluting the water to the air being polluted with incinerators
(C) the pollution of water by landfills to the pollution of air by incinerators
(D) pollution of the water by landfills to incinerators that pollute the air
(E) water that is polluted by landfills to incinerators that pollute the air
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The focus here is on the phrases x and y in the construction shifting environmental problems from x to y. In choice C, the best answer, x and y are parallel not only grammatically but also logically: in each phrase, an environmental problem (pollution) affects a substance (water, air) and is caused by an agent (landfills, incinerators). In choice A the noun landfills (agent) is not grammatically or logically parallel with the verb phrase polluting the air (environmental problem); in B, landfills is not logically parallel with air (substance affected). The terms pollution (problem) in D and water (substance) in E are not logically parallel with incinerators (agent).
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