Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than pays for itself in health cost savings. And the idea that local authorities could effectively regulate waste disposal is absurd, it seems none of those who militate for relaxed standards are aware that the wind blows and the rivers run, spreading pollution from one noxious pipe or smokestack all over the country. It is for just these sorts of problems that we have a federal government...
...Return, 1915, De Chirico's train has once more entered the city; its black silhouette is plumb in the center of the looming gray facades; a bright ball of vapor hovers directly above its smokestack. Perhaps it comes from the train and is near us. Or possibly it is a cloud on the horizon, lit by the sun that never penetrates the buildings, in the last electric-blue silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one's sense of space. The early De Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quodaenigma...
...spending increases first began to tail off in the 1970s, the industry's infrastructure has seriously eroded. Hundreds of small foundries that made vital metal castings have gone bankrupt or have been forced to close by the Environmental Protection Agency (for excessive dust, smoke and chemical byproducts). Traditional smokestack industries such as steel and rubber have gone into a steep decline, losing their customers and even entire markets to more efficient overseas competitors...
...claims that the tab for cleaner ah-has been reduced productivity, the new bill does not go along with a demand that additional antipollution measures be subjected to cost-benefit analyses. Such tests would try to determine whether the extra benefits to society derived from, say, putting smokestack "scrubbers" on coal-burning plants are really worth then-cost...
While MATEP opponents are beginning to brace themselves for the day, there is still a considerable amount of work needed before the first diesel fumes rise up the 315-foot smokestack. The November DEQE approval of the engines contained 32 operating conditions, many of which require the submission of plans concerning the testing and running of the diesels. Installation of a monitoring system designed to measure nitrous oxide levels in the surrounding community also is part of the explicit operating conditions. Nevertheless, officials believe the first diesel could be ready for testing by the end of the year. MATEP will...