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smokestack

sā€‰mohkā€‰stak

  • n  a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated

  • Part of the answer will be akin to the smokestack scrubbers.
  • Schweitzer acknowledges some concerns environmentalists and others have about developing state land, but still argues coal-to-diesel plants can be developed with smokestack-free .
  • Two mosquelike domes flank a sky-high smokestack painted in red and white stripes.
News & Articles

  • Abandoned oil wells surface as a threat of water pollution
    LULING ā€” Amid the dry weeds on a 470-acre ranch here, a rusted head of steel pokes up, a vestige of an oil well abandoned decades ago. Across the field stand two huge, old wooden oil tanks, one of them tilting like a smokestack on the Titanic.
    June 13, 2013 - The San Angelo Standard-Times
  • Tumbling down
    ROBB DeCAMP Special to the Times The smokestack that once towered over American Municipal Power's Richard H.
    June 10, 2013 - The Marietta Times
Quotes

  • Susan Solomon in CBS13.com
    It's not like air pollution where if we turn off a smokestack, in a few days the air is clear,said Susan Solomon, chief author of the international report and a climate researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's...
  • Greg Nickels in MiamiHerald.com
    If a city is going to have a competitive economy, "you've got to have the people with these skills, regardless of what your base industries are," Nickels said. "Even if your main industry seems to be one that's a smokestack industry -- it...
  • Stephen Schneider in E/The Environmental Magazine
    If my tailpipe and your smokestack are free, there are no incentives,commented Dr. Stephen Schneider, member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for the panel's work raising awareness...

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