Word: carbonation
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Many pollutants fall back to earth on their own. Carbon dioxide, for example, is absorbed by trees and by the oceans to be used in photosynthesis. Dust particles fall because of their weight...
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...dream of environmentalists is the nightmare of producers and users of coal, which contains more carbon than any other fuel. Supporters like Vice President Al Gore praise the idea because it would cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the main culprit in global warming. "It fights the deficit and it fights pollution in a big way," says David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...coal-burning utilities and their customers. In a recent letter to Clinton, Richard Disbrow, chairman of the American Electric Power Co. argued that a coal tax would "burden the steel, auto, metalworking, chemical, plastics, paint, paper and primary manufacturing industries, which rely heavily on coal-fired electricity and carbon-based fuels." Such objections seem likely to doom the levy. "Forget the carbon tax," says a top Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "If you're looking at 1996 -- and they are at the White House -- that would cost them Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania...
...pocketbooks would be virtually the same as that of the sales tax. Yet it would achieve more pollution control because of its greater impact on coal, which has a high BTU content in relation to its price. Even so, a BTU levy would be far less punitive than a carbon tax. "The BTU tax doesn't cause ^ any big shift in fuel choices," says an official of the United Mine Workers union. "We prefer it to the carbon tax, which could destroy our industry." But the levy would still run afoul of powerful interests that reject the very idea...