The new loosening of Environmental Protection Agency rules for the enforcement of existing environmental standards reflects exactly the Bush administration's and the utility industry's position that the old rules were too costly and ineffective ("Lawyers at E.P.A. Say It Will Drop Pollution Cases," front page, Nov. 6).
We also see the pollution dropping significantly after the fires, with pollution levels in 2000 being much lower than those observed in 1997, although not quite as low as those from 1996.
It blows in across the gulf, the pollution dropping out before it reaches the shore.
Ashok Gupta, an economist for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private conservation group, said that with costs for wind power dropping and restrictions on pollution from old-style power plants growing, almost all power producers will eventually offer cleanly generated electricity along with power from conventional sources.
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When Atlanta put strict driving rules in effect for the 1996 summer Olympics, air pollution dropped.
They were welcomed, rightly so, by conservationists and others who have watched in despair as enforcement actions dropped and water pollution levels went up.
Around 230,000 harbour porpoises, sometimes known as common porpoises, live in the North Sea, where their numbers have already dropped due to pollution and getting caught in fishing nets.
In the decade after the Eastern bloc countries gained independence in 1989, pollution dropped precipitously, as Soviet-era heavy industry shut down.
| School was canceled, traffic was nearly paralyzed and the airport was shut down in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin on Monday as off-the-charts pollution dropped visibility to less than 10 meters in parts of the provincial capital.
