Word: cleanly
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...Marquez, his appointee to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state's environmental agency. Near the end of the meeting, one of Bush's staff members made a reference to something called "grandfathered plants." "What are those?" Bush asked. Marquez explained that in 1971, when the state's Clean Air Act was passed, the bill had exempted all existing industrial plants from the new antipollution regulations. (Texas is funny that way.) Lawmakers assumed that many of these aging plants would soon shut down, but that didn't happen. They just kept spewing. By 1996, state environmental officials discovered that...
...have been impatient with the polluters, but he still wasn't willing to get tough with them. Perhaps because of his own career in the West Texas oil fields, Bush shares the mind-set of the industry, believing that "you can't sue or legislate your way to clean air and clean water...
History teaches the opposite. Progress against pollution has come because of regulation, not the beneficence of industry. At the time of Bush's meeting with Marquez, some TNRCC officials had been pushing for a law that would have required the plants to clean up. Bush's insistence on a voluntary approach--an attitude shared by Marquez, a former executive at Monsanto--quashed that idea. In early 1997, Bush's team held a series of private meetings with oil-, gas- and chemical-industry leaders and invited them to draft a plan for a voluntary emission-reduction program. The secret meetings came...
...Mass. Ave. They live without Dorm Crew and without swipe cards, in an isolated and self-sufficient community. Alex C. A. Kaufman '02 says, "if you do the most difficult chores, you'll end up working 4 hours a week at least." They make their bread, mix their juice, clean their toilets, churn their compost, and somehow have time to do their homework...
...superb food is only one of the many reasons why Harvard students choose the Co-op over sanctioned housing. The work itself drew Dan B. Visel '00, who felt thoroughly uncomfortable having strangers cook for him and clean his bathrooms--"it was like having servants and I wasn't into that mentality." Reider, who moved to the Co-op this autumn, wasn't into that mentality either. She describes house life as "living in this box next to many other people in boxes and eating processed food." She says she came to the Co-op because she "just got tired...