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t�� s the year. tbe US tnoJi­ air. q ality. Wit legis atior:1 it:l Agency (EPA) administrator Carol Brd'Wner the works that might significantly affect emissions standards, the country should ask itself: How can it manaae an uncontrollable natural resource? the cleanup I pital admissions cases by 60,000 each efits totaling up to $1 20 ing. your new clean air standards and shove them, then get the hell out of my coun- aroma. Globally, air currents snatch industrial tox­ ins from Russia and northeastern Europe, for exam­ ple, depositing them in the water off Broughton Island, well above the Arctic Circle. This is the home of the Inuit and as a result they harbor much higher levels of PCBs (polychlorinated bythenol: any class of toxic, aromatic compounds formed as waste in industrial processes) in their bloodstreams than most Northern Europeans and Russians. Similarly, Samoa, Greenland and the Antarctic-far from any industrial centers-have high concentra­ tions of heavy metals, pesticides and radioactive .al,.��.n.o in their atmospheres. In the n()lrth" "�1'''rn On city streets you can tell by scent th-; ��.e'�jr.s;pa,�e.�� of his cologne, her cigarette smoke, the tn �kdriv�ir'S rf'E " !.; dIt

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