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...deter illegal immigrants from coming to town. An ordinance will go into effect this week in Vista, Calif.--a San Diego suburb--that requires employers to register with the city before using day laborers, many of whom are illegal immigrants. They must also report whom they hire. The coal town of Hazleton, Pa. (pop. 31,000), is preparing to carry out the nation's toughest illegal-immigration law, passed two weeks ago. Hazleton's new regulations mandate fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and landlords who knowingly rent to them. "Our quality of life is at stake...
...decades, the burning of coal to generate electricity has seemed destined for the dustbin of history. What good is a fuel that emits into the atmosphere twice as much carbon dioxide (CO2) - considered the worst of the greenhouse gases - as does natural gas? Britain, for instance, once hoped to reduce its reliance on [an error occurred while processing this directive] coal-generated power from around 32% to 16% by 2020 as part of its plan to cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2050. And yet, by all indications, coal seems poised for a comeback. Thanks to high natural-gas prices...
...their own, however, these technologies aren't enough to decrease overall emissions because the world's coal-burn rate is rising so quickly. For overall emissions to fall, plants also need carbon capture and storage ( ccs) technologies that shunt the compressed CO2 deep into the ground, perhaps into depleted oil and gas reserves, or into saline aquifers beneath the ocean floor. Sequestration technology works - oil companies have been using it for years - but so far it hasn't been used in conjunction with a power plant. The promise of ccs coal plants has won the approval of some environmental groups...
Where was his impact the greatest? Start with the economy. When Roosevelt first came to the presidency, after the assassination of William McKinley, the U.S. was emerging as one of the world's wealthiest nations. It was first in the world in its output of timber, steel, coal, iron. Since 1860 the population had doubled, exports had tripled. But that bounding growth had brought with it all the upheavals of an industrial age--poverty, child labor, dreadful factory conditions. Year after year, workers faced off against bosses with their fists clenched...
...there are hard truths here for Australia and other mid-sized countries. For years, New Zealand has been viewed as a social and economic laboratory. Policy makers can see what works and what doesn't. Perhaps, as some are now suggesting, the Kiwi is becoming the canary in the coal mine of the new global economic order. According to David Skilling, chief executive of The New Zealand Institute, the health of the bird tells us how globalization affects countries on the periphery?and that, of course, includes Australia, despite being five times the size of its neighbor. Geography still matters...