Word: coaling
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Question: What do 52 million trees in Guatemala have to do with one coal- burning power plant in Uncasville, Conn.? Answer: they form a healthy environmental equation. That is the hope of Virginia-based Applied Energy Services, a builder and operator of power plants in Texas, Pennsylvania and California. Like any other coal-fired generator, the 180-megawatt plant now under construction in Uncasville will spew carbon dioxide, the chief culprit ! in the globe-warming greenhouse effect. But acting on a recommendation from the World Resources Institute, a Washington environmental-policy research center, AES has voluntarily donated $2 million...
...concert in the bus, and "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven." George Bush, out of Kennebunkport and Houston, out of Andover and Yale, had a little mountain twang in his voice when he said it, standing in twill trousers and a cowboy shirt. Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter out of Butcher's Hollow, Ky., told the crowd she loves George Bush " 'cuz he's country...
Currently the most pressing and complex environmental problem is the greenhouse effect. The industrial age has been fueled by the burning of coal, wood and oil, which spews wastes -- most notably carbon dioxide (CO2) -- into the sky. This thickens the layer of atmospheric gases that traps heat from the sun and keep the earth warm. This greenhouse effect is expected to bring about more change more quickly than any other climatic event in the earth's history. Scientists warn that the changes cannot be stopped, though they can be slowed. But the time is short. Says Robert Dickinson, a senior...
...shipyard workers voted to end their strike following an emotional appeal from Lech Walesa, leader of the outlawed Solidarity union and an electrician at the facility. They were followed by steel-mill employees in Stalowa Wola and coal-mine workers in Jastrzebie, where the latest round of labor troubles began on Aug. 16. The last to settle were port and public transport employees in Szczecin, who abandoned their strikes around noon on Saturday...
Today satellite pictures of chlorophyll a, the best indicator of photosynthesis, are as reliable as readings taken directly from the water. Evans and NASA will soon begin releasing the global images to eager colleagues. "If we are to ask society to make trillion-dollar decisions, such as switching from coal to natural gas in order to reverse the greenhouse effect, we have to validate the models on which those decisions are based," says Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. "The primary productivity of the oceans is an essential component of any such model...