The Environmental Tracking Industries Emissions (E.P.A) proposed a rule requiring a broad range of industries to tally and report their greenhouse gas emissions.The proposal would require about 13,000 factories, power plants and other facilities to report their emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other gases that are linked to global warming according to the climate scientists. The E.P.A. says that the rule, promulgated under the Clean Air Act, would account for 85 percent to 90 percent of the country’s emissions of heat-trapping gases, excluding small manufactures.“This is the foundation of any serious program to cap and reduce global warming pollution,” said the policy director for the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Council. The E.P.A. estimated that the cost to industry would be $160 million in the first year, then fall to $127 million a year. Manufacturers would be required to report emissions from the vehicles they make. Automobile Manufactures are saying that theirorganization was still reviewing the proposal, but that the reporting requirement was not new for the automobile industry.“E.P.A. already knows the carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles,” a spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said, “because E.P.A. measures grams per mile of CO2 from automobiles.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/washington/11epa.html?_r=1&ref=science
4 comments:
1- good summary length (not to short/not too long)
2- interesting topic - keeps reader interested
3- to the point
1- explain more about motives of sutomobile industry
2- a bit confusing in some places
1- i learned that the Clean Air Act would account for 85-90% of the country's emissions of heat-trapping gases.
1. good details
2. short and to the point
3. topic people like to read about
1. too many facts, not enough explaination
2. too many facts, confuses the reader a little
1. clean air act would account for 85 to 90% of trpping the gases
This was a good article because it is on a current topic of global warming. Also, it gave many cost estimates, so it shows how costly the project will really be. Lastly, it explained the E.P.A's project from start to finish.
He could have used more understandable language in some areas. Also, he didn't explain how the CO2 releases were going to be monitored.
I learned that the E.P.A is now making even more efforts to use mathematical knowledge to stop CO2 release into the atmosphere.
3-Intersting topic
- It gets straighte to the point
- It is thouragh becuase it contains the estimates of the project
2- It was a little bit confusing in some areas
- He also could have explianed more about th emonitroing of the CO2 into the environment
1- I learned that the clean air act would account for 85-90 percent of the countrys emission of gases
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