标题: Imagining Coal Without Air Pollution (2nd and last of the WSJ Series) [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-8-2014 13:39 标题: Imagining Coal Without Air Pollution (2nd and last of the WSJ Series) Rebecca Smith and John W Miller, 煤炭的未来:污染防治新规抑制燃煤电厂. 华尔街日报中文版, Jan 8, 2014
cn.wsj.com/gb/20140108/bus094445.asp
, which is translated from
Rebecca Smith and John W Miller, Imagining Coal Without Air Pollution. Wall Street Journal, Jan 8, 2014
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB20001424052702303330204579248771284421960
Quote:
Like China: “The US had its own encounters with choking pollution several decades ago. Though nearly forgotten today, the incidents sparked the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and federal regulations that have reshaped the electricity industry—then and now the country's largest industrial source of air pollution.
“Since reaching a peak in the late 1970s, US utilities have slashed their release of their two biggest air pollutants, cutting sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, by more than 80% and reducing smog-forming nitrogen oxides by more than 75%, according to federal statistics. Utilities did it—and slashed soot emissions as well—while continuing to burn enormous amounts of coal.
“US air-pollution regulation can be traced back to October 1948, when a cloud of pollution settled over the industrial town of Donora, Pa, leaving 20 people dead. Thousands of people were sickened by the smog, which was later linked to industrial sources, including a zinc plant. Smog that gripped New York City during Thanksgiving week in 1966 also was blamed for deaths. In 1970 Congress passed the Clean Air Act.
Note:
(a) Again (like the main report of yesterday), the English-language online version does not have the two photos and a graphic that appear in print, as well as the Chinese-language version.
(b) The title of the Chinese translation is from the title of the English-language DRAFT: The Future of Coal: New Pollution Rules Choke Old Power Plants.
Despite the title, the English-language report does not detail new technology.
(c) US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was formed in 1970.
(d) Donora, Pennsylvania
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donora,_Pennsylvania
(incorporated in 1901; Donora got its name from a combination of William Donner [founded and owned National Tin Plate Company] and Nora Mellon, banker Andrew W Mellon's wife; “the infamous Donora Smog of 1948. Between October 26, and October 31, 1948 an air inversion trapped industrial effluent (air pollution) from the American Steel and Wire plant and Donora Zinc Works; now part of Rust Belt)