Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate Commerce Committee drafted legislation to provide up to $140 million in federal funds over the next three years for research into auto engines that would both pollute less and burn less fuel than present engines do; the Government now spends about $10 million a year on such research...
...subject, Power Over People (Oxford University Press; $7.50), Physicist Louise B. Young gives one possible reason: the discharge of high voltages into the air can produce ozone, a form of oxygen with three (rather than two) atoms in its molecular makeup, and oxides of nitrogen. Ozone can oxidize or "burn" healthy tissue, and nitrogen oxides form nitrous acid and one of the major components of smog. All of these might well affect people and plants that live near the lines...
Jones, Gareth Stedman, "The History of US Imperialism," Ideology in Social Science (ed. by Robin Black-burn), New York, Vintage Books...
Another farmer stood up and told the gathering that, "I'm definitely against it because I don't think they can burn coal without hurtin' us." And a third farmer put into words the reason why he and thirty-five of his neighbors had taken time off from the business of farming and gathered together at the old school building: "We're trying to organize a group to find out how that power plant is going to affect us...our land...our environment...our livestock...our buildings and machinery...
...power plant is going to be a 2800 megawatt facility. It will burn 27,400 tons of coal each day, and release into the nearby air (according to AP&L's estimates) 469 tons of sulfur dioxide, 14 tons of particulate matter, and 291 tons of nitrogen oxides each day. That's more than any power plant currently in operation in the United States. The power plant will be, according to the Arkansas State Dept. of Planning, "possibly the worst single source of air pollution in the world." It will certainly be a greater source of pollution than the infamous...