Love Canal has been released as completely "cleaned up". ("...centered on containing the waste under a thick clay cap and high-density polyethylene liner and surrounding it with a barrier drainage system." You can move in if you want. I don't think I will.)
Gee, that didn't take long.
Cleaner automobiles
[Th]e new clean cars [partial zero-emission vehicles (PZEVs)] will likely catch on because, unlike battery cars (which suffered from a range of less than 100 miles), they present few drawbacks for consumers. The Ford Focus PZEV, available as an option nationally in 2004, costs just $115 more than standard models and offers a performance boost.
Fans of futuristic technology should love PZEVs. BMW, Mitsubishi, and Volvo PZEV cars offer a novel radiator coating, the Engelhard corporation's PremAir, which "eats" ground-level ozone, a smog precursor.
"It's a very simple technology," said Engelhard's commercial manager, Bulent Yavuz. "The ambient air moving through the radiator contains a concentration of ozone, and our chemical catalyst converts up to 80 percent of it to oxygen."
Ted Lowen, Engelhard director of corporate affairs, claims that a jogger running behind a PZEV car equipped with PremAir would be breathing cleaner air than if he or she were in front of it.
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Fans of futuristic technology should love PZEVs. BMW, Mitsubishi, and Volvo PZEV cars offer a novel radiator coating, the Engelhard corporation's PremAir, which "eats" ground-level ozone, a smog precursor.
"It's a very simple technology," said Engelhard's commercial manager, Bulent Yavuz. "The ambient air moving through the radiator contains a concentration of ozone, and our chemical catalyst converts up to 80 percent of it to oxygen."
Ted Lowen, Engelhard director of corporate affairs, claims that a jogger running behind a PZEV car equipped with PremAir would be breathing cleaner air than if he or she were in front of it.
Of course, they still use gasoline, so we may clean up our air, but we'll still have all the same oil dependency problems. And may I remind you that the automobile manufacturers are not creating these vehicles out of a sense of environmental responsibility. They're doing it in response to stringent regulations in the Northeast and California, where they sell a butt load of cars. So remind your no-government-interference-with-the-market friends that they could be purchasing gas masks just to breathe if it weren't for government interference.
Clean up of weapons grade uranium
The International Atomic Energy Agency, with the blessing of the U.S., has decided to scour the globe for highly enriched uranium and plutonium, so that nobody (else) can make a nuclear bomb.
The depleted uranium that contaminates the countries we've already bombed (and continue bombing), however, will be permitted to stay.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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