completed a report about tall smokestacks at coal power plants.he report found that in 1970, the year the clean air act was enacted, there were two what they called tall stacks, smokestacks over 500 feet in the united states, two. by 1985, there were more than 180 tall stacks. as of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks were operating at 172 coal power plants, representing 64% of the coal-generating capacity in our country. the industry literally smokestacked its way into compliance with the clean air act. what do i mean by that? well, in the early days of the clean air act, some states allowed sources of pollution to build tall smokestacks instead of installing pollution controls. the concept was back then that pollution sent high enough into the atmosphere would be sent far away from the source and would not contribute to air pollution problems, at least in that state. well, it turns out this air pollution causes problems downwind in other states. as the g.a.o. report put it, tall stacks generally disperse pollutants over a greater distances than shorter s

they shove your feet out of the smokestack kitchen. they narrow the big sea sba a line of your sweat and then they take away your last word and then they take away another. now you put the keys back in your pocket and now you push on the door until it is in flame, until it is in flame. next reader is jane herschfield. . >> one sand grain among the others in winter wind. i wake with my hand held over the place of grief in my body. depend on nothing, the voice advices, but even that is useless. my ears are useless, my familiar and intimate tongue, my protecting hand is useless that wants to hold the single leaf to the tree and say, not this one. this one will be saved. a poem written on september 15th, 2001, against the knowledge that exactly what would happen was probably going to happen. the dead do not want us dead. the dead do not want us dead. such petty errors are left for the living. nor do they want our mourning. no gift to them. not rage, not weeping. return one of them, any one of them, to the earth and look. such foolish skipp

succeeded in converting the preference one category from public, structures like water towers, bridges, smokestacks, five polls, to a category of publicly used structures which includes libraries, hospitals, and health centers. this bit of subterfuge cannot hide the fact that verizon's wireless facility is an industrial commercial use and therefore is incompatible with the surrounding residential community. please vote to deny verizon a permit for this location. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i would like to thank the supervisors for this opportunity to make clear the committee's opposition to this proposal and to make clear our reasons why. i have a retail space two blocks from here. i lived in this neighborhood for many years. they are fundamentally less reliable than wire networks. that will be the case no matter how many a particular carrier installs around san francisco. wireless networks use radio frequency radiation to transmit and receive their signals. they can be blocked by buildings, for example, depending upon the materials of which these buildings are constructed. you can us

so the direct emissions of carbon monoxide from the smokestack are pretty stable. in other words, there isn't long term effects caused by the carbon monoxide other than the effects of people's health. >> so do we need to worry about our health inside to outside? >> in the outside air, no. we've done a good job. we've decreased levels. for the most part, unless there is some sort of unique weather pattern that would cause a build-up in inland valleys, what we call street canyons, the outside areas is very safe. it's indoor that causes a problem. >> even in the wintertime, we talked about generators, people trying to use barbecues, but what about boilers and furnaces? >> they do create carbon monoxide. as long as they are maintained properly and they are in good working order, usually it's not going to be a concern. usually problems are caused when there is a lack of maintenance or degradation to the equipment itself that allows carbon monoxide to escape in the house where people are exposed. >> cheryl: so there is no way to know that unless you get one of these? >>

polluters can't just pollute at will and as senator carper said build these big smokestacks and blow that pollution over to, in this case, 38 other states and hurt the people in those states. that is not the american way. what senator paul is doing is the height of irresponsibility. and i -- i want to put the picture back of that child again. how is it upon to allow the pollution to go on and on and on when you have the technology developed to stop it and when it is moving out of your state and going to another state and harming children like this? mr. derouchie scrrks would the senator from california yield for a question? mrs. boxer: i would be happy to. mr. derouchie: i would like to thank the senator for her leadership on this issue. i noticed earlier that senator paul who is asking for us to basically eliminate the standard of protection when it comes to air pollution that crosses state boundaries, if i'm not mistaken, his resolution would eliminate this standard. there would be none. mr. durbin: if i'm not mistaken as well, he has made an argument on the floor this has no direc

a smokestack is set to implode. samantha summers, a reporter with the "springfield news-sun" in ohio. her colleague marshal is a photographer and videographer. the two are assigned to cover the implosion. >> they're normally cut and dry, you show up and know what to expect. >> it was like a christmas present, to get there and shoot something like that. >> and there were about 25, 30 people assembled. it was mostly media, tv and newspapers. >> everyone is a few hundred feet from where the tower is supposed to fall, including children seen here. >> the demolition committee tours it. >> i didn't mind. they started counting. and there's a little poof, poof. and then they're looking at it. >> there's a pause as you're waiting for the next round of charges. >> poof. >> and you start to see it teeter. >> and the next thing you know, you hear somebody yell, it's going to wrong way. >> wrong way. >> and it started to lean more dramatically to the south. it was the wrong direction. >> one little girl takes off running like a

the same time we saw when you got into the specifics people were much more wary of changing the smokestack regulations and such and the sort of classic idea that people may be kind of conservative and a theory but in kind of operationally more liberally and pragmatically get to different stations. we saw fascinating results in terms of trade. i think there's a tendency to think of one party as more patriot than the other, but we found a huge segment of the republican electorate weary of china or weary of the free trade deals like the three with columbia, panama and south korea that just passed congress. on the other hand, we found the most pro trade constituency that we have seen with more affluent democrats, even more than more affluent republicans. so, i think the landscape is quite model, and i think it's going to be very hard to make a call on who can prevail on those. i do think -- and again, tell me if you think i'm off on this is a past we've election that has tended to elect candidates who couldn't stand the buffeting that would come in the following election. i think we saw some o

they have smokestacks that loadisn' the pollution into other states and they say is that wonderful? we don't really have any problem here. it's your problem. when i made this analogy senator harper correctedrp me.ou're he said well, you are right andit it's a good analogy as far as it i goes but garbage isn't usually poisoned. a so i amend by analogy to say this. if we knew someone had garbage that included poison, and they took that garbagend that included poison and put it on someone else's front lawn, that would be a terrible thing to do and it would be the moral responsibility of that party to clean it up and not do it again, and that is what this rule is about.w, i w now, i want to talk about specifics rather than be fake. this rule that senator paul speaks to cancel out repeal,o prevent up to 35,000 cases ofeath premature death, 19,000 emergency room and hospital visits, 400,000 cases of aggravated asthma attacks and 1.8 million lost work and school days that is estimated to provide up80 to $280 billion in annual benefitsby by 2014. so all this flailing around and calling peop