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...Midwestern power-plant emissions that Northeastern commentators constantly depict as a horror? Such emissions are a problem--but a declining problem. Levels of sulfur dioxide (acid rain) from Midwestern power plants have dropped 40% in the past two decades, even as electricity production keeps rising; emissions of nitrogen oxide from Midwestern plants are also declining. At the worst, Bush's recent decision to encourage the modernization of Midwestern power plants will only slow the future rate of decline...
Last June, ACID representative William Bloomstein said he hoped to have the specifics of the agreement worked out by this fall, but last night both sides indicated that a final document would not be ready for a neighborhood vote for several more months...
Bloomstein said he hoped to present a draft to other members of ACID in October and to the entire neighborhood council at their Nov. 18 meeting. The residents would have a month to discuss the agreement before voting in December, he said...
After several community members said they wanted more opportunities to share their views earlier in the process, Bloomstein agreed to hold a series of informal meetings where residents could speak to the four ACID representatives...
Joel Bard, an ACID representative who is also a lawyer, said it would not be. But he added that it would be signed by high-level University administrators, including Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone, and would include provisions that “you’d hope an institution whose motto is truth would honor...