"A study published Monday in the journal PNAS adds a new twist to the pollution problem by looking at consumption. While we tend to think of factories or power plants as the source of pollution, those polluters wouldn't exist without consumer demand for their products. The researchers found that air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans."
"George H.W. Bush never visited the Adirondacks as president, as far as we know, but perhaps no other president had as much of a positive impact on the Adirondack Park, from the White House."
"Theodore Roosevelt comes to mind, of course. As New York’s governor, he helped shape the park in its early days, but once he became president, his great conservation work was on a national scale — albeit inspired by his love of the protected Adirondacks."
"But the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990, which Bush pushed through Congress, reversed the course of acid rain and thus saved the woods and waters of the Adirondacks, and beyond. As sweeping as that sounds, it’s no exaggeration."
Interesting background on this important form of pollution controls.
"The good news is due to decades of worldwide cooperation to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals."
Figuring that even low levels of carbon monoxide lead to cardiac problems, it's hardly shocking that CO could also kill or damage brain cells.
While I don't own one of those fancy color televisions or even listen to the news on the radio much anymore, I have my doubts that there is much news coverage about the 3 to 7 Albany County residents that are murdered each year by power plant pollution. Air pollution may be the greatest method of murder in the county during most of the recent years.
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