... to regulate from coal-fired power plants was sulfur dioxide. Since the sulfur that goes out the smoke- stack originates in a plant’s fuel, there are two ways to cut down on emissions: reduce the sulfur content of the fuel-either by using low sulfur coal or by pulverizing the coal and washing...

...: Or how the clean air act became a multibillion-dollar bail-out for high-sulfur coal producers and what should be done about it. By Bruce A. Ackerman and William T. Hassler. 193 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981 Vitality and Aging: Implications of the rectangular curve. By James...

.... Ballester, F., M. Saez, and S. Perez-Hoyos. 2002 . A Multicentre Study on Air Pollution and Mortality in Spain: Combined Results for Particulates and for Sulfur Dioxide. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 59 (5): 300 -308. Blot, W. J., and J. K. McLaughlin. 1998 . Passive Smoking and Lung...

... for attainment and maintenance of healthy ambient air quality standards, to limit the maximum allowable concentration of so-called cri- teria pollutants (ozone, lead, sulfur dioxide, particulates, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide), and to require emissions reductions in motor vehicles; to limit emissions...

... reduces hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, but at the cost of developing more sulfuric acid and sulfate. (A similar situation arose when the government-required flame retardant chemical in children’s clothes was discovered to be carcinogenic.) Injuries are the leading cause of death...

... Results for Particulates and for Sulfur Diox- ide. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 59(5):300–308. Blot, W. J., and J. K. McLaughlin. 1998. Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer Risk: What Is the Story Now? Journal of the National Cancer Institute 90(19):1416–1417. Boffetta, P., A. Agudo, and W...

... Results for Particulates and for Sulfur Diox- ide. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 59(5):300–308. Blot, W. J., and J. K. McLaughlin. 1998. Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer Risk: What Is the Story Now? Journal of the National Cancer Institute 90(19):1416–1417. Boffetta, P., A. Agudo, and W...

... Results for Particulates and for Sulfur Diox- ide. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 59(5):300–308. Blot, W. J., and J. K. McLaughlin. 1998. Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer Risk: What Is the Story Now? Journal of the National Cancer Institute 90(19):1416–1417. Boffetta, P., A. Agudo, and W...