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...dirty fuel. Made up of the carbonized remains of primeval plants that were buried in the earth for 250 million to 400 million years, it contains up to 36 chemical elements. When burned, many of these are released into the air as pollutants, the most harmful of which is sulfur. The Government has strict air-quality standards for every U.S. region. In eastern Ohio, for example, no coal with more than .6% sulfur will be burned after...
...companies have combined with electric utilities and other industries to find ways to take the sulfur out of coal. Usually, this is done by sending coal gases through "scrubbers" at the bottom of tall smokestacks that contain a chemical solution to filter emissions...
...Southern Co., a holding company of utilities, is trying to extract sulfur not from smoke but from the coal itself. At a pilot plant near Birmingham, Southern dissolves coal with a recoverable chemical solvent. The coal is filtered to remove impurities and then resolidified. The final product is a clean fuel that has virtually no sulfur or ash and a very high heat value. Cost per ton promises to be competitive...
...lead would foul the device beyond repair. As a result, the EPA has ordered the oil industry to make lead-free gasoline available at all major gas stations by next summer. Another problem is that the converter emits minute amounts of yet another pollutant -a fine mist of sulfuric acid. One solution might be for refineries to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline...
...makes its decision on the plant, the ACSR will be officially responding to a list of requests ACORN submitted to it in October. ACORN wants Harvard to put pressure on AP&L to install "scrubbers" on the coal-burning plant's smokestacks in order to cut down on sulfur dioxide emissions, and to pressure AP&L to promise to pay nearby farmers for any damage the plant might cause to the farmer's crops...