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...literally was a breath of fresh air. Since 1970, it has cut the amount of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere by 44% and carbon monoxide by 30%. Soot and ash from factories have been reduced by 16%. And the perpetual veils of industrial haze that used to hang over steelmaking cities like Pittsburgh, Gary, Ind., and Birmingham have been lifted...
Gorsuch has also attempted to belittle the results of EPA'S enforcement efforts, but the evidence sharply contradicts her. Among hundreds of examples of EPA's impact: particulates of soot and dust emitted into the air were reduced from 29,000 tons in 1972 to just 790 tons by 1979 in Massachusetts, from 41,000 to 3,500 in Maine and New Hampshire, and from 139,000 to 82,000 in previously hazy Detroit. In one of the many rivers cleaned up under EPA rules, the Penobscot in Maine, one salmon was caught...
Many of these gray areas are abandoned or decaying. But some of Archie's working-class neighborhoods are holding their ground. Most of these were houses built from the 1890s to the 1920s, when chimney-studded industrial plants belched soot over entire neighborhoods. Blue-collar housing consisted of look-alike cottages or row houses. But after World War II, in their own dogged kind of urban renewal, more affluent workers began to alter their monotone dwellings. They painted them in pinks and greens, sheathed them in asbestos shingles, ersatz clapboard or fake stone and brick and punched outsized suburban...
Malle's characters are always cleaning themselves, washing their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from her body after her workday as an oyster-bar waitress, she squeezes lemon-halves over her arms, shoulders, chest and breasts. Dingily unerotic, bathed in orange light, the sequence seems more satanic than baptismal. It distills the almost misanthropic repulsion towards this city that guides Malle's direction: nothing...
...story, cement-block building that houses Black & Webster Inc. of Waltham, Mass., nestles in a wooded hollow, unspoiled by the soot of sprawling factories. From his white-marble-top desk, President Peter T. Webster, 41, can watch pheasants dart across the lawn. But the rustic setting is deceptive. Webster and his staff of 83 people, including six engineers and ten highly skilled machinists, turn out such space-age products as orbital riveters and vibratory feeders...