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...recent years should teach us not to rush in with quick fixes where we know we have an inadequate understanding of existing conditions." Meanwhile the Canadian government has been trying to persuade the Administration to change its position on legislation that would enforce a 50% cut in high-sulfur emissions from U.S. industrial sources by 1990. The measure would cost American utilities and consumers an estimated $2.5 billion to $4 billion a year...
Such natural processes as volcanic eruptions, forest fires and the bacterial decomposition of organic matter produce some of the damaging acidic sulfur and nitrogen compounds. But most experts believe that the current problem is directly traceable to the burning of fossil fuels by power plants, factories and smelting operations and, to a lesser extent, auto emissions. When tall smokestacks vent their fumes, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and traces of such toxic metals as mercury and cadmium mix with water vapor in the atmosphere. Chemical reactions follow that form dilute solutions of nitric and sulfuric acids-acid rain...
...surface and releasing them into the atmosphere, causing much of Santa Barbara's air pollution. Under a deal struck with state and local governments, the oil companies will get an air-pollution credit: for every two tons of hydrocarbons they eliminate, they will be allowed one ton of sulfur-and nitrogen-oxide emissions from future drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. The pact should clear the way for developing a nearby well that could produce as many as 4,100 bbl. of oil a day. Says ARCO's offshore operations chief, Paul Rowley: "We just couldn...
...debris as its Yankee rival. But as Volcanologist Wendell Duffield of the U.S. Geological Survey notes, "At Mount St. Helens the barrel of the cannon was pointed laterally. At El Chichón it was pointed straight up." The result: the Mexican volcano injected much more dust, ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where the particles would be wafted high enough (at least 18 miles) to be carried in a westerly direction by prevailing high-altitude winds. Thus far, the cloud has been spotted over Hawaii, Japan, the Indian Ocean and Africa. U-2s have also detected traces over...
...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...