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...caused damage in the bathroom of the Northwest Science Building. Officers reported that the individual was gone on arrival and there was no damage. 4/20/09 2:46 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to Landmark Center in Boston to assist BPD on the report of a smell of sulfur in the building. Officers reported that the BPD handled the incident. 5:01 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to Soldiers Field Park to a report that a television had been thrown out of a window. Officers arrived and saw that a computer monitor, not a television, was laying...
...greenhouse gases are pollutants that threaten public health and welfare. Under the Clean Air Act, that finding means that the EPA has a responsibility to address the damage caused by greenhouse gases, possibly through direct regulation of CO2 - just as it regulates other air pollutants, like acid rain-causing sulfur dioxide. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...diet. When Mikucki studied the organisms' DNA and energy-processing systems, she found that they were indeed descended from species that once lived in the open ocean. Underneath the ice, they were deprived of light to run photosynthesis, and instead they relied on what they found around them - principally sulfur and iron - to generate energy. The genes responsible for that alternative metabolism are also found in other marine organisms but they're less important to those species because the oceans provide more options for food...
...concluding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human welfare, the EPA's finding could lay the groundwork for nationwide regulation of CO2 emissions - just as the EPA is require to regulate pollutants like smog-causing sulfur dioxide. But regulating CO2 will be immensely more complicated - the U.S. emitted over 6 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2007 from countless sources - and business groups have raised the specter of a meddlesome EPA using greenhouse gases as an excuse to regulate projects large and small...
...written, using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions directly would be unreasonably difficult, because of carbon dioxide's sheer ubiquity. In 2000, the U.S. emitted less than 18 million tons of the pollutant sulfur dioxide, chiefly from cars, power plants and factories. In the same year, national CO2 emissions reached nearly 6 billion tons, from virtually every aspect of modern life. Regulating emissions would be like trying to gather up the ocean. In addition, the Clean Air Act technically requires "major" sources of pollutants - meaning those that emit more than 250 tons a year - to acquire costly...