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...wells from the 40-story-high platform pumped 80,000 barrels a day, about 5% of Brazil's petroleum production. The rig, the pride of Brazil's petroleum industry, was listing at 30 degrees after the explosion. If it sinks, it could release 1.5 million liters of diesel and oil into the South Atlantic...
...test, conducted by the Massachusetts State Laboratories, revealed a substance chemically similar to diesel fuel--a finding that is consistent with reports by the employee, who said the bottle of Coke, purchased in Loker Commons, smelled like fuel...
...would clean up toxic industrial sites and provide more money to the national parks were cautious, inoffensive stuff. But his new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, is talking a much bolder game. Day after day last week, she spoke of getting the sulfur out of diesel fuel, tightening pollution controls on power plants and even curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming, which is the biggest environmental problem of them all. Is this really the agenda of an Administration headed by two former oilmen...
...Whitman seems to have persuaded Bush to build on some of the unfinished efforts of the previous Administration. The rule to get more than 90% of the sulfur out of diesel fuel, which could prevent tens of thousands of cases of bronchitis each year and about 8,300 premature deaths, was proposed by Bill Clinton. Another set of Clinton's air-pollution regulations, stalled for years by lawsuits, finally won unanimous support last week from the U.S. Supreme Court. In a strong opinion from a surprising source, conservative Antonin Scalia, the court backed the EPA's authority to set tough...
...fate of millions of square miles of federal land in the West--Norton, Whitman and Bush's lukewarm support of the EPA may turn out to be every Sierra Club member's worst nightmare. It is good to see that Bush has made some sort of gesture with the diesel emission initiative and his support of the Clean Air Act. However, his pro-environment posturing will prove meaningless if he prioritizes private economic interests and continues to undercut "green" programs. Let's hope he proves us wrong...