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Brett Dewey, a Los Angeles television writer, recalls the moment he decided to go electric. "I see the mountains from my office window for a third of the year," he says. "The other two-thirds of the year, they vanish behind the smog." Last June he thought of the $75 a month in gas he could save by trading his 15-m.p.g. Toyota 4Runner for an EV1. "While I was debating," he recalls, "I looked out my window and the mountains were gone." Likewise, actors Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, replaced their Ford Explorer...
...Wileys may look like tourists, but they are not. Emigres from urban America, they have come to rural southwestern Ohio to escape L.A.'s noise, traffic, crime, smog and cost of living--not to mention its cutthroat film industry--and reach for the kind of safe, close-knit way of life Jim recalls from his childhood in tiny Sharpsville, Pa. "Living in L.A., my vision became blurred and twisted," he says. "I was spoiled. I had secretaries doing everything for me. All I did was talk on the phone and sit in traffic...
DETROIT: Oilmen, light your cigars: Honda may have just saved internal combustion. Honda Motor Co. announced the development of a gasoline engine that is nearly emission-free. "A car equipped with this engine could drive through a high smog area and the smog producing emissions coming out of the tailpipe would actually be lower than they are in the surrounding air," said Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda's president and chief executive officer...
...Sarawak right now, and according to health experts, you will be inhaling the equivalent of 80 cigarettes. It is no surprise, then, that an estimated 32,000 people in Southeast Asia are suffering from smoke-related illnesses, as the whole region chokes under the weight of the smog caused by hundreds of Indonesian forest fires. The fires created a dense blanket of smoke over Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. There is a state of emergency in several major cities. Schools and hospitals have been closed. In places such as Sarawak, you can barely...
...real and imminent." To that end, he has promised to hold a conference later this year to highlight the problem. Perhaps then we will see whether he is willing to be as forceful on the issue of greenhouse gases as he was last week on the issue of smog...