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Before a crowd of approximately 300 people, Browner discussed recent EPA proposals that call for a revision of the national ambient air quality standards for particulate matter and ground level ozone--better known as soot and smog...
Last week, two days before a court-ordered deadline, the EPA made its move. In a decision that EPA chief Carol Browner calls one of the most important of her career, the agency proposed tough new standards on both particulates and ground-level ozone, a major component of smog. The standards will save 20,000 lives a year, according to the EPA. Under the new rules, however, dozens of cities that meet the requirements of the current Clean-Air Act would suddenly fall out of compliance...
...emerge from four years of stagnation. Yet despite all appearances of revolution, the regime remains the same in the eyes of most Japanese. The nation is ruled not by the parliament or the Prime Minister but rather by a force as faceless as ancient Emperors and as intractable as smog: Kasumigaseki, the district in Tokyo where government bureaucrats have their offices and from which they have colonized the rest of Japan...
...desperately seeking an engine to replace the internal-combustion machine that has been powering cars, consuming oceans of fossil fuel and polluting the universe for about 100 years. GM, in fact, will begin selling a battery-powered electric car in California this year. California, locked in a perpetual automotive smog, requires that by 2003, 10% of the cars offered for sale in the state produce zero emissions; many states are expected to follow suit...
...fuel efficiency for new domestic cars has risen from 15 m.p.g. to 28 m.p.g. over the same period. Still, American drivers consume about two to three times as much gasoline per capita as drivers in other advanced countries--and at a high environmental cost, as anyone riding around a smog-bound Los Angeles or Denver can easily...