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...Clean Air Act of 1990 tries to change the old way of doing things; it allows companies to meet pollution goals by whatever means they can. With regard to emissions of noxious sulfur dioxide, the new law sets up a clever system in which companies and utilities will be issued permits to produce certain amounts of the gas. If a company finds ways to produce less SO2 than it is allowed to, it can make money by selling unused pollution permits to other firms. "This is the frontier of environmental policy," says Robert Stavins, an economist at Harvard's Kennedy...
...THEORY, AN ELECTRIC CAR IS AN IDEA OF BLINDing brilliance. Since such cars are powered by batteries, not internal combustion engines, there are no noxious emissions and no need for gasoline. Gas stations soon disappear, as do refineries and their occasional unhappy by-products, oil spills and groundwater pollution. Electric cars are easy on the ears since they make virtually no noise. Refueling? Drive up to a handy 220-volt electrical outlet, plug in and charge...
There are problems with the theory. It is not clear that HIV can survive oral ingestion. Also, if the noxious seed was sown in the '50s, why didn't African doctors notice it sooner? Curtis offers possible explanations, but the clearest resolution would be to test the original vaccine stocks, still on ice at Wistar, for HIV-like viruses. Wistar officials last week said they would form a committee "to evaluate the Rolling Stone speculations." Meanwhile, there is no reason to worry about standard polio vaccines: they are rigorously screened for contamination...
...noxious bacilli are transmitted through the air, and it is possible to contract the infection in just a few days of exposure. More typically, a person must be in close contact with an ailing patient for over a month to catch the bug. Even then, infection leads to full-fledged disease in only 5% to 10% of cases, at least among those with healthy immune systems...
...Quality Management District (AQMD), Lents is charged with enforcing antipollution regulations in the 6,600-sq.-mi. area that encompasses Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties. The 12 million people, 8 million motor vehicles and 31,000 businesses in the area spew 1,246 tons of noxious gases into the air every...