"I think this is a good way forward," said San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill, also a member of the air-pollution authority that signed off on the agreement.
They would be the cleanest generators in use in the city in terms of nitrogen oxide emissions, which cause smog and other pollution, the authority said.
"The Thompson Hill section needs a sewer system, but people there have set their minds that they don't want it," said Joseph Laroche, 84, a former member of the local pollution control authority.
Early in 2013, an outbreak of pollution forced authorities to cut off water to a city of nine million people.
The law that Mr. Quinn signed was crucial to making the project financially viable, but the company still needs permits from state environmental and pollution control authorities.
Plagued by record levels of air pollution last week, authorities in the French capital decreed that cars whose number plates end in an odd number were only allowed to be on the road one day, with even-numbered cars allowed the following day.
Yet another, started weeks ago, is creating so much pollution that authorities have told the elderly, children and pregnant women living nearby to evacuate to escape the ash and air pollution.
But the Iraqis' anger has been increasingly channeled into an above-board labor movement, expressing concerns about workers' rights, local government authority, pollution, transparent hiring practices and public accountability, among other issues.
— Jeff Gordinier The Wall Street Journal: To combat summer's oppressive air pollution in Beijing, authorities are cracking down on streetside grilling, with mutton skewers a particular target.
Accused of "spiritual pollution" by the authorities, he left Beijing in late 1983 and, travelling with a camera, a notebook, and Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," wandered around China for three years, subsisting on odd jobs and the kindness of friends and strangers.
The director of his work unit condemns him in front of his fellows: 'His lax, free-wheeling lifestyle... shows all the signs of the Spiritual Pollution the central authorities have been telling us about.' The noose is tightening around young Ma.
