Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assistant state attorney general, JanetO'Kay, defended the decision by the Department ofEnvironmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) tolicense the diesel engines. O'Kay said it was theDEQE's mandate to determine the significance ofhealth risks...
Foes of the $350 million facility argued that it should not be allowed to operate because pollutants from its diesel engines could potentially lead to an increased mortality rate among the plant's neighboring population...
...MATEP project, which was initiated in 1974, was constructed over a seven-year period and cost more than nine times the original estimates. Its purpose is to provide cheap, reliable energy to the medical area. Harvard officials call it the most efficient diesel-powered energy plant in the world...
...engines put out 3,000 h.p., as much as a diesel locomotive, except that a locomotive may weigh 300,000 lbs., while a top fueler weighs under 2,000 lbs., driver and decals included. (The decals are everywhere. Mostly they advertise sponsors, but they also serve to cover holes where exploding engine parts have perforated the body metal and to announce matters of personal philosophy. A stylized fish on his windshield declares Garlits a member of RACERS FOR CHRIST...
Earle Gavett, director of the Department of Agriculture's Energy Office, estimates that farmers will save $1.1 billion on gasoline and diesel fuel this year. The amount that individual farms will save, says Mike Pieschel, president of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Springfield, Minn., "is not by itself going to prevent any farmer from going under. But it sure as hell is going to have an impact" in reducing the cost squeeze for some growers. Salesmen of tractors and combines are less sanguine. Says Cletus Chappell, co-owner of C&W Equipment Co., of Jerseyville, Ill.: "The savings will...