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...younger generation's feelings about the environment have not escaped the notice of corporate America. Many companies, including fossil fuel-burning utilities and the manufacturers of nonbiodegradable plastics, have begun looking for ways to present a better face to their future clientele. Recycle This, a professional theater production touring U.S. high schools and featuring rock-'n'-roll and rap songs about landfills and solid waste, is sponsored by Dow Chemical, a major producer of polystyrene...
...come from the heart, and that using incentives to promote conservation will only teach students to follow their pocketbooks. Back when I was a kid, my parents told me to shut doors and turn off lights. Never once did they lecture me on the abstract virtues of preserving scarce fossil fuels or cutting down on air pollution. They simply asked me if I thought they could afford to heat the whole outdoors...
Alternative fuels such as natural gas and ethanol are ideal replacements for fossil fuels, said C. Boyden Gray '64, legal counsel to Bush since...
...idea, so long as it is accompanied by some sort of a rebate plan for the poor to counteract the regressive nature of such a tax. Already, American consumers pay absurdly low gasoline prices by global standards. Taxing gasoline heavily makes good economic sense, because fossil fuel consumption carries with it heavy, unpaid social costs--notably environmental destruction...
...demand could escalate rapidly in the next decade, especially in areas of heavy pollution. "Natural gas has the lowest carbon dioxide emissions of any of the fossil fuels," notes James MacKenzie, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute, an environmental group. More natural gas could be used for electrical generation, mainly to replace coal. "Power plants can switch fuels and cut their emissions of sulfur instantly with relatively inexpensive changes in equipment," says MacKenzie. The most untapped market is transportation. More than 30,000 cars and trucks in the U.S. run on natural gas, and automakers have shown increasing...