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Power companies get to play the heavy in more than their share of environmental dramas. If they're not damming scenic rivers or generating nuclear waste, they're burning fossil fuels, contributing to acid rain, urban smog and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In that regard, American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat...
...time to get administrators' heads out of the smog and into clean air," he said...
...people of Mexico City call it nata, or scum. It is the sickly brown cloud that stubbornly hangs over the megalopolis, home to 23 million people. Composed primarily of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone, the smog has made the winter of 1991 the most toxic in Mexico City history, triggering a 16% to 20% jump in the incidence of respiratory infections, nosebleeds and emphysema. Since September, the city has enjoyed only six days in which noxious gases did not exceed danger levels. "The atmosphere has no time to recuperate," says Homero Aridjis, president of the Group...
...advertising man named Daniel Miller, Brooks departs this earth as a result of a rather silly car crash and finds himself in a limbo called Judgment City. It is a not-too-bright Southern Californian's idea of paradise -- all high-rises, malls and programmed politeness, but with no smog. Best of all, you can eat all you want of healthless foods and not gain an ounce...
Scheme Z won't wreck much--there isn't much there to wreck--but its sheer size and the smog it will create will keep all positive development out of North Point. Problems of aesthetics and traffic that have plagued Boston will be dumped on Cambridge. State officals should stop and look again for a more palatable alternative...