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Every year tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides generated by U.S. coal- fired power plants drift northward to fall on Canadian forests and lakes as acid rain. Ronald Reagan has mostly resisted Canada's repeated requests that the U.S. clean up the skies. Last week, 14 months after a joint U.S.-Canadian commission recommended that the U.S. spend $5 billion to find cleaner methods for burning coal, the President promised to commit half that amount, $2.5 billion over five years. The belated gesture should smooth the way for Reagan's visit next month to Ottawa, where environmentalists plan...
...Robert Kirshner, the temperature of 1987A's expanding shell should drop from its current 10,000 degrees C to roughly 6,000 degrees C, about the same temperature as our sun's surface. During the explosion, though, internal temperatures climbed to billions of degrees, and elements like silicon, sulfur and platinum, synthesized by the star, began spewing out over a vast region of space, where they will form clouds of gas and dust that can coalesce into new stars and planets. Indeed, most of the elements abundant on earth today, except hydrogen, were cooked up in some star that became...
According to a study released last week by Management Information Services, a Washington-based research organization, legislation to reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions from coal-fired utilities would result in a net gain of up to 195,000 American jobs and $13 billion in annual sales for U.S. companies. "Far from hurting the industry," the report says, "the large purchase of capital equipment and supporting goods and services . . . will provide a much needed shot...
...benefits would not be evenly distributed, however. States producing high- sulfur coal, among them Kentucky, Illinois and Pennsylvania, would come up losers. But some coal-burning states in the Midwest would be among the biggest winners. Michigan, for example, a heavily industrialized state that would be in a position to manufacture pollution-control equipment, could pick up nearly 14,000 new jobs and more than $1 billion in annual corporate revenues...
...stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease...