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According to federal air-quality standards, the stuff that floats above Los Angeles is unfit for humans to breathe for more than half the year. As a / result, the second most populous city in the U.S. last year implemented the nation's toughest antismog regulations. United Parcel Services said last week it will comply with the new rules by converting its 2,700 delivery trucks in Los Angeles to cleaner-burning natural gas. By the year 2007, the city expects all its cars and trucks to run on cleaner fuel...
...United Parcel, with headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., has spent a year testing 10 natural gas-fuel trucks in Brooklyn, N.Y. Reduction of smog-causing gases has been so effective in those vehicles that the company is preparing to make sample conversions by early 1991 in its 600-vehicle fleet in Manhattan. They will come none too soon; New York City has the second worst air in the U.S., after Los Angeles...
...This work is part and parcel of what Afro-American study should be about," Morrison said...
...movement, which once had a reputation for attracting only fringe liberals, has truly moved into the mainstream. Most Americans probably now know that styrofoam is bad and trees are good, that natural resources are not inexhaustable and that the garbage they put out on the curb is part and parcel of "the solid waste problem...
Many of the Government's properties are white elephants of the most unwanted breed. One such mammoth is the 24,000-acre Banning-Lewis Ranch, situated just outside vastly overbuilt Colorado Springs. A developer paid $200 million for the parcel in the mid-1980s as the future site of several planned communities, but now the land is virtually useless because the city has de-annexed it. As a result, anyone who wishes to develop the former ranch can no longer count on municipally priced water...