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- <text id=89TT2362>
- <title>
- Sep. 11, 1989: American Notes:Parks
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- PARKS
- Haze over The Canyon
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Visitors to the Grand Canyon have long complained that smog
- is ruining the view. A National Park Service study tracked
- winter weather patterns and the sources of the haze. The main
- culprit: Arizona's Navajo Generating Station, an electrical
- plant 80 miles away. The plant, burning 24,000 tons of coal
- daily and releasing an estimated 12 to 13 tons of sulfur dioxide
- from its smokestacks every hour, was found responsible for about
- half the Grand Canyon's pollution.
- </p>
- <p> Last week the Environmental Protection Agency recommended
- that up to $1 billion in pollution controls be installed at the
- station. But the Federal Bureau of Reclamation owns a 24%
- interest in Navajo and would have to contribute to the cleanup.
- Faced with an interagency imbroglio, Interior Secretary Manuel
- Lujan responded in classic fashion by ordering up yet another
- study, thus casting further haze over the future of Grand
- Canyon.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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