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...control pollution as its economy grows at more than 10% a year, workers flood in from other provinces and more than 1,000 cars are added to the road each day. Environmental officials say they have been able to cut emissions and steadily increase the number of "blue sky days," a target based on air pollution levels. But earlier this year an American environmental consultant accused the city of dropping air monitoring stations from highly polluted areas out of the calculations and adding numbers from new stations in cleaner areas. The consultant, Steven Andrews, also says that the city...
...Analysts don't absolve OPEC of blame for keeping prices sky-high. They have voted three times since last fall against raising production, despite direct appeals for relief to Naimi from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. That's partly because they fear they could some day run dry of oil, leaving future generations without the key source of Arab wealth. "It's understandable," says Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based watchdog organization for big oil-consuming countries. "Oil-producing countries have policies not to run down their reserves." And that...
...Naimi had no good news for those hoping for some relief from sky-high prices. He said it could take "at least 50 years" for the world to comprehensively adopt alternatives to the oil and gas that today account for about 90% of world energy consumption. Naimi castigated Western governments that have pushed biofuels as the major energy alternative, which has ravaged forests and agricultural land. Biofuels, he said, "will produce just 6% of energy consumption by 2010, and has not even reduced greenhouse gases." Instead, the world's most powerful oilman advocated "truly renewable sources of energy, like solar...
...Sky-High Staples Food prices have surged in the past few years, and in recent months inflation has sparked riots, hoarding and economic sanctions around the globe. A look at the rapid increases of some local necessities in the past year...
FINANCIAL WOES Aloha Airlines, ATA and Skybus all ceased operations in the same week this month, and Champion Air will shut down in May. Rising fuel prices, among other factors, made it difficult to stay in the sky...