The Bush administration is violating the Clean Air Act by permitting increases in pollution from power plants and other major polluters (news article, Aug. 28).
THE NEWS Pollution turned a major river system in central China red and foamy, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to as many as 200,000 people.
Re "Air Is Heavy With Pollution, and Resentment" (news article, May 28), about the St . Lawrence Cement Groupfactory in the Waterfront South section of Camden: The St. Lawrence facility is a beacon of hope for our community, not an added burden.
Air pollution has become headline news here -- one of the snippets that flowed from President Obama's visit was that breathing the air had cut six hours off his life-expectancy.
But there is also pollution, from a dangerous elision between news that pays and news that matters.
When the news of the pollution was made public on June 4, Ms. Ramirez was irate.
That pollution darkens skies is not news -- 19th-century, coal-burning London famously suffered "pea soup" fogs that lasted for days.
Chimeras aside, we've also had the shocking news that air pollution is now a major contributor to stroke worldwide, and excitement as researchers discover the fossil remains of what appear to be the ancestors of the Flores 'hobbits'hobbits
The closings, which the government said would continue Wednesday — and which opposition supporters expected to continue Thursday as well — were precautions because of heavy pollution and dust storms, the news agency ILNA reported.
