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...break down air pollutants, first went looking for government work in the last weeks of the Bush Administration. His technology, which neutralizes toxic detritus in a vat of iron heated to 3,000[degrees] F, seemed like a promising solution for the Energy Department's nuclear mess. So Molten Metal was chosen as one of 18 firms to obtain research grants. But even then there were some skeptical voices: Energy Department consultants warned in 1992 that Haney's process offered "no significant advantage" to "justify its preferred development" over rivals...
...best-selling book on the environment, joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity." But as Forbes magazine wrote in January 1996, Molten Metal had yet to prove its method was cost-effective...
...like these were also raised by the scientific experts. In January 1994, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported that the process was probably inappropriate for the kind of waste at most nuclear weapons sites. By late 1995, a technical peer-review panel said the department should cease funding Molten Metal at the end of the fiscal year. Another Energy Department panel concluded last December that Haney's technology poses environmental and safety risks and might not be cost-effective. The company disputes this, insisting its bath method is both technically sound and marketable...
...Clinton-Gore Administration will have to explain to the Republicans its largesse toward Molten Metal. Last Friday, House Commerce Committee chairman Tom Bliley of Virginia opened an investigation into the company's federal contracts. In a letter to Energy Secretary Federico Pena, he noted "troubling issues," including the continued funding of Haney's technology "in light of its apparent technical and commercial limitations." It is an inquiry that is sure to creep close to the Vice President's door...
...m.p.h. that stripped the hides off cows, upended 50,000-lb. garbage trucks, lifted the asphalt off the road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide and seven miles long, the twister left...