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Cogen thinks you can, and he's not alone. In 1990 the Clean Air Act capped emissions of sulfur dioxide, a major contributor to acid rain, and ordered that they be gradually reduced. The government issued "allowances" to companies and let them trade polluting rights on the open market. A power company that cut its emissions at relatively low cost could sell its leftover emission rights to another utility facing higher costs for pollution control...
...reduce emissions," he says, "and companies have an incentive to cut pollution so they can sell credits." The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that sulfur dioxide emissions have been halved since 1990 and that Americans save $50 billion a year in health and environmental costs associated with acid rain...
...Until last week, when terrorists launched a deadly attack at Davao airport. William Hyde, an American missionary, was outside the crowded terminal sheltering from the rain beneath a protective canopy. According to police, he may have been approached by a young man with a backpack, whom they identify as Montazer Sudang, a 23-year-old with apparent links to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's biggest Islamic separatist group. A large pipe bomb, either in Sudang's backpack or carried by an unidentified female accomplice, exploded with an enormous blast. When the smoke cleared, 21 people were...
...Crimson’s game with Indiana Purdue Ft. Wayne, scheduled for 7 p.m. last night, was cancelled due to rain and will not be rescheduled...
...hard rain, in any case, is going to fall. Keep the Constitution dry and legible. The danger to America is that in trying to protect what it has, it will lose the very thing that is worth having...