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THERE are at least five major kinds of air pollution. so identified by the regulatory agencies in the state of California and the federal government. These include oxides of nitrogen, sulfur compounds, particulate, hydro-carbons, and carbon monoxide...
...Instead of action, GM provides misleading accounts of what it has accomplished," he said. "In its Annual Report... GM states that its 1970 cars, as equipped for California use, reduced hydro-carbon emissions by 80 per cent...
Most of GM's actual research goes toward devising "gadgets" to curb hydro-carbon and carbon-monoxide emissions on the company's internal combustion engine. Automotive experts have admitted that the internal combustion engine will always be a pollutant and will have to be replaced before the air can be cleaned. But GM and most of the other leading auto companies have committed themselves to it-understandably, since it's their current product. Only a very small part of their research budget has gone, to date, into developing alternative engines to replace...
...suit accuses Detroit of "hindering and delaying" the development of antipollution devices as far back as 1953. It focuses on a "blow-by" connection that cuts down the outflow of hydro carbons and carbon monoxide by feeding unburned gasoline in the crankcase back into the engine. The blow-by, developed by G.M., costs the consumer from $5 to $10. It has been used on a royalty-free basis on all cars, starting with 1963 models. According to the Justice Department, the automakers could have installed the blow-by connectors a year earlier but agreed among them selves on a delay...
...area's power companies have belatedly mounted a massive effort to overhaul, augment and modernize equipment and procedures. At the On tario Hydro-Electric Power Commission's Sir Adam Beck Plant No. 2, where the region-wide short circuit originated in an overloaded relay fuse, more relays have been added to in crease the system's safety margin. To prevent the area's vast, interlocking power grid from being pulled down again, newly designed switches have been installed in northwestern New York State so that the southern part of the system can automatically cut itself...