Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a place in Manila called Smoking Mountain, and it's basically a mountain formed of pure garbage," says Murray, a graduate student in Harvard's environmental engineering department...
According to Murray, the site used to be a huge landfill, but so much garbage was dumped into the hole that it quickly filled...
...reason why it's called Smoking Mountain is because the bugs which biodegrade the waste produce an enormous amount of methane gas which literally fumes from the site," Murray says...
...very excited about this project," Murray says. "We have really been given a lot of responsibility with this. We have the chance now to shape the development of these countries in an environmentally sound...
...example, Murray says electric power plants in China have multiple negative effects on the surrounding community, including problems with acid rain, dust and carbon dioxide emission...