Word: sulfurous
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...factories and power plants stoked by high-sulfur coal have darkened skies and contaminated waters, making Eastern Europe the world's most polluted region...
...major source of the pollution is the relentless burning of soft, brown high-sulfur coal, called lignite, which is the basic fuel of the East bloc. On cold winter days in Leipzig, the yellow-brown smog emitted by coal-fired power plants is so thick that drivers are forced to turn on their headlights during the day. In the triangle comprising southern Poland and northern Czechoslovakia, which is covered by a permanent cloud of emissions from factories and power plants, residents complain that the air is so bad that washed clothes turn dirty before they can dry on the line...
...Acid rain, which has never been legally controlled, is causing serious damage in the Northeast and Canada. The Senate and House measures alike require a 50% reduction (about 10 million tons) from 1980 levels by the end of the year 2000 in factories' emissions of sulfur dioxide, which turns rain into sulfuric acid. Major reductions are also called for in nitrogen oxides (2 million tons by the year 2000 in the Administration and House versions, 4 million tons by 2005 in the Senate version...
...burden of these reductions would fall most heavily on the Appalachian regions that produce high-sulfur coal and the 107 Midwestern power plants that burn it. "This bill will absolutely devastate my state, leaving nothing but unemployment in its path," complained Democratic Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois. The Senate version tries to help by offering incentives to plants that buy cleanup technology and reduce pollution even more than required (they would get credits that they could sell to other plants). But the Senate narrowly rejected an amendment by former majority leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia that would have compensated...
...signs of bass running in the shallows. Within minutes he was at his destination, the Potomac Electric Power Co.'s Chalk Point generating station, a plant that produces electricity for the White House. Under Bush's proposed clean-air program, the facility would have to cut half its sulfur dioxide emissions within ten years, a $400 million undertaking. "Megabucks," acknowledged Bush. "But I am determined to clean...