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Article: BETTER BREATHING; NEW YORK ACTS TO CURB AIR POLLUTION GENERATED WITHIN ITS BORDERS.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2005
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Imagine how clean our air would be if, by some divine intervention, 2.5 million cars suddenly disappeared from New York's roads. Imagine, too, the environmental and public health benefits if pollution equivalent to that spewed from every diesel truck and bus in the United States were removed from the air.
Now you get a sense of the enormity of what are probably the most significant air-pollution settlements in New York history. Combined, the agreements between the state and the operators of six Upstate coal-fired power plants this week will dramatically cut emissions that cause acid rain and smog. That's 123,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 18,000 tons of nitrogen ...