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...trading scheme, similar to the greenhouse gas market in Western Europe, that allows companies to buy and sell carbon dioxide permits. Thus, industries that cost more to clean up can buy the permits from companies that can cut emissions more cheaply, and reduce their costs. "A cap-and-trade program, which has been used for controlling acid rain in the U.S., will give industry flexibility," says Jason Mark of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science-based non-profit. "If heat-trapping emissions are not reduced, the state faces poorer air quality, a sharp rise in extreme heat, a less...
...outcome, California's new law, which was adopted by the legislature Thursday and is expected to be signed by Schwarzenegger next week, would require that its industries measure exactly how much they emit by 2008. Then, by 2011, the state's independent Air Resources Board must adopt rules that cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants to 1990 levels by the year 2020. That's a 25 percent reduction compared to business as usual...
Fenway Park: 1. Home field of the World Champion Boston Red Sox, perennial rivals of the New York Yankees. Go now—and leave your Yankees cap at home...
...month to nine days, but he dived into the gritty, sweaty labor that he loves. Each week aides put a new photo album on a credenza outside the door to the Oval Office for the President and visitors to savor; the current edition features Bush in T shirt, ball cap and goggles, using power tools to cut a bike path through Texas scrub...
...past two days, Ali Al Tawil has been trudging around the rubble of Haret Hreik, a Shi'a neighborhood in southern Beirut, wearing a Hizballah yellow vest and matching baseball cap that says "Jihad of Construction." Armed with only a clipboard, Al Tawil is one of about 1,500 Hizballah civil engineers who have fanned out across the country to survey the damage from over a month of war with Israel. For now, they are simply recording which buildings have been damaged, slightly damaged or obliterated. More detailed surveys will soon follow to determine what repairs need to be done...