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...economically efficient than ever. And guess what: the U.S. has more of it than any place else-27 percent of the world's total. Coal-burning power plants fuel half of the nation's electricity. That was true even during the 1990s, when utilities built plants that burn cleaner natural gas. Back then, natural gas, which cost a quarter what it does today, was viewed as the bankable alternative souce for electricity generation. Now, coal is the darling. More than 120 new plants have been proposed and domestic and international demand are soaring...
Raising money for their company, Johnson Seafarms, was not so effortless. The $60 billion fish-farming industry has a foul reputation from problems associated with caged salmon, such as parasites and pollution from concentrated fish wastes. Investors were leery. Viguie and Rzepkowski argued that farming cod would be cleaner. Cod is white fleshed, so it doesn't require dyes that are added to farmed salmon; nor does cod attract sea lice, so chemical pesticides aren't needed. By 2005, Johnson Seafarms had raised $38 million and had begun exporting cod to U.S. restaurants and specialty markets. The company aims...
...part because he hates to sit still. So he asked Time's Josh Tyrangiel to join him for a drive in his bio-diesel-powered Hummer--"I love it when people yell at me about the environment," says Young, "and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them"--down the Pacific Coast Highway. For nearly four hours, Young, 59, talked about how facing death has affected his music; the recent death of his father; his sons, both of whom have cerebral palsy; and his early days in a funk band with Super Freak Rick James...
...general idea was that we wanted the site to be more aesthetically pleasing, cleaner, and a bit more logical,” Hughes said. “It was just time to tighten up the look...
...workers each had to get tetanus and hepatitis shots before re-entering the suppurating city. Once under way, we had to stop twice: once to wait for a flatbed with a fan boat to join the convoy and again because a 55-gal. vat of Industrial Blue All-Purpose Cleaner was slipping and threatening to slide onto the highway...