Word: acidated
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...every battle. By pleading financial hardship, steelmakers got until the year 2020 to eliminate cancer-causing emissions from their coke ovens, as long as they take interim steps to reduce that pollution. Electric utilities in the Great Lakes region -- many of them affected by the new acid-rain rules -- fought off a proposal to require them to reduce their release of mercury and other toxic chemicals from coal-burning plants...
...swallow at a time when politicians are proposing higher taxes and cutbacks in social services. Environmentalists point out that the cost of doing nothing could have been higher, perhaps $50 billion a year. It is not clear, though, exactly how one calculates the price of forests ruined by acid rain or the suffering caused by pollution-related lung diseases and birth defects...
...Acid rain. A Harvard study last March found that some rain over Boston reaches the acidity of battery acid. Sixty thousand lakes in North America are threatened. President Bush stated in a campaign speech that "the time for action on clean air and acid rain is now." The Clean Air Act of 1990 would do something about this problem (the 1977 act did not), but the President says he may veto...
...Houston economic summit in August, Bush avoided the global warming issue by arguing that it did not exist! That's what opponents of the 1977 Clean Air Act said about acid rain...
...alliterative, and highly allusive language. Plagiarizing from sources as varied as Joyce, Shakespeare, and the slang of fifties Americana, they wend their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...