... level. It is also made from a renewable source and can be domestically produced. The problem with ethanol as a power source is it's high fuel cost and its decreased vehicle range. Along the same lines, is methanol, or "wood alcohol." This is often used in race cars, due to its amazing performance and fire safety characteristics. The pros and cons for this ... been used as a fuel for vehicles. Also referred to as CNG (compressed natural gas) and methane, it's been used mostly in heavy tanks. It has to be stored under pressure. Along with the low emissions of hydrocarbons, toxins and carb...

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... people die each year from drinking contaminated water! Another big problem are Oil spills. These large scale accidental discharges of liquid petroleum products are an important factor of the pollution along shore lines. The most spectacular spills involve the supertankers that are used to transport the product, but offshore drilling contribute to a large share of the pollution. One estimate is that ... War, resulted in enormous damage to the entire area, especially to the marine life. One of the methods used to clean up oil spills is a long sponge that they drag along the surface of the...

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... Cap goes down, and the pool of allowances gets costlier, and polluters must quickly come up with a way to match allowances to emissions. The opportunity for Cap and Trade came along with the 1998 presidential election of George H.W Bush. The president of EDF called Bush's White House counsel, Boyden Gray, suggesting that the best way for Bush to become the " ... ...

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... , when dinosaurs were in existence, the earth consisted of diverse tropical trees and swamps. It was an ideal state for the formation of fossil fuels. At the time, dinosaurs died along with various plants and decomposed deep in the Earth's crust layer upon layer. The layers gradually, with time, turned into a black coloured rock-like substance we now know as coal ... ...

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... air to form urban smog (Blair 145). Urban smog is a serious problem because it can cause many illnesses. Lung damage is caused from urban smog. Humans suffer from acid rain along with plants and animals. If humans want to continue to live in the world as it is there must be some changes made in our everyday lives. Since burning fossil ... ...

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... of the heat. In a way this protects us because without the greenhouse effect, the whole Earth would be like Antarctica. The greenhouse effect is what kept the seasons in balance (along with the rotation of the earth, of course). Now, global warming may be shifting the balance too much one way or the other. The greenhouse gasses building up and holding ... ...

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... oxygen and take in carbon dioxide and thereby clean the air around us. It is therefore our duty to take care of them. Look after the trees in your neighborhood, along with your friends, begin a tree watch similar to a neighborhood watch. See to it that trees in your area are looked after. Plant more trees and tend to them too. Switch ... ...

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... (VOCs), they can cause breathing difficulty in people who have asthma, coughs in children, and general illness in your respiratory system. Motor vehicles, industries, burning coal, gasoline, other fossil fuels; along with chemicals that are in hairspray and paints release ozone. When ozone is close to the ground (ground level ozone) it can cause chest pain, irritated respiratory tract, or persistent ... ...

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... . Acid rain has been around for awhile now, but the most dramatic reports of acid rain damages came in the early 70's in Ontario lakes. "Dead fish were washing up along the beaches, and the term "wet desert" was being used to describe the clear, blue, fishless lakes"(Effects). This is an example of what acid rain does to affect lakes ... ...

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... cities, stone monuments and concrete statues start to corrode. The paintjobs in cars are also effected. Pollution in the atmosphere speeds up the corrosion process. Visibility has been drasticly effected along the Eastern seaboard by smog, and there are now human health issues related to acid rain. ...

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... cloudy water look and taste a bit better. Distillation units turn water to steam and recondense it to a cleaner state. This process has its disadvantages, too for they can also pass along harmful chemicals with low boiling points into the water. Another water treatment device is the reverse-osmosis device, which uses sophisticate membranes to separate pure water from impure. Even though ... ...

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