Word: sulfurous
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...Nine eastern states have established the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative for the purpose of developing a cap-and-trade program that would set ceilings on industrial emissions and allow companies that overperform to sell pollution credits to those that underperform-- the same smart, incentive-based strategy that got sulfur dioxide under control and reduced acid rain. And California passed the nation's toughest automobile- emissions law last summer...
...allowances from firms that have unused permits. Or they could pay farmers to store carbon and developing nations to preserve forests. The idea comes from a concept developed by Environmental Defense when Krupp helped draft the 1990 Clean Air Act. It set up a trading system to control sulfur dioxide. Krupp believes similar financial incentives could slow global warming. "Once you put a value on carbon reductions," he says, "you make winners out of innovators. You offer a pot of gold." --By Charles Alexander...
...weekly mitigation meetings, neighbors of the construction project fixated on getting Harvard to stop using high sulfur diesel in the site’s excavation crane, arguing that the exhaust spewing forth from the trucks and construction equipment posed a threat to the health of neighbors and students...
...nearest gas station that sells the low sulfur diesel is in Weymouth...
Both the city bus system and Harvard’s shuttles use the fuel, and a state law will go into effect in October requiring construction sites to use the low sulfur diesel...