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  • Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow

    06/11/2006 11:09:19 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 31 replies · 669+ views
    NY Times ^ | 6/11/06 | KEITH BRADSHER and DAVID BARBOZA
    One of China's lesser-known exports is a dangerous brew of soot, toxic chemicals and climate-changing gases from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants.In early April, a dense cloud of pollutants over Northern China sailed to nearby Seoul, sweeping along dust and desert sand before wafting across the Pacific.The increase in global-warming gases from China's coal use will probably exceed that for all industrialized countries combined over the next 25 years, surpassing by five times the reduction in such emissions that the Kyoto Protocol seeks.Already, China uses more coal than the United States, the European Union and Japan combined. And it...
  • Federal court tosses out N.Y. smoking-ban lawsuit

    04/13/2004 12:36:33 PM PDT · by freepatriot32 · 45 replies · 577+ views
    freedomforum.org ^ | 04.10.04 | By The Associated Press
    NEW YORK — A federal judge has snuffed out a lawsuit seeking to overturn city and state bans on smoking in bars and restaurants, saying the challenge on constitutional grounds was so weak it was "akin to trying to scale Mount Everest with a ball of string." U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero concluded in a ruling released yesterday that New York state and city legislators were being rational when they used police powers over the health and welfare of the public to enact smoking bans. Marrero rejected all the constitutional challenges brought by an organization calling itself NYC CLASH —...