Date:  Thu, 24 May 2001 15:19:33 -0700 
From: "Thomas (Tom) Krohmer" theprogenitor@angelfire.com 
Subject:  Air Port -Toxic Air Zone info 
Organization:  Angelfire  (http://email.angelfire.mailcity.lycos.com:80) 
To:  carlb@mpch-mainz.mpg.de 
Reply To:  theprogenitor@angelfire.com 
  
 


   Ever see a good picture of an electrical storm at
night ?  Please keep that in mind with this article,
as another implications with ozone depletion.

   There was an institute in Flordia (USA) that was 
studying lightning.  I'll try to locate them for you,
if you feel that it might help.

Tom

Airports' Poison Circles
Earth Island Journal, Winter 2000-2001
Author:  Sharon Skolnick

U.S. airports are dangerous areas of pollution and increased cancer risk. A
poison circle can extend for six miles around a single runway and is
carried downwind 20 miles. Chemicals in the zone include nitrogen oxide,
naphthalene, benzene, and formaldehyde, as well as others that harm human
health and contribute to global warming.
Jet planes pollute much more on the ground than in the air. Additional
dioxins from spilled jet fuel, diethelyne glycol from de-icing fluids,
leaked engine oil, and jet exhaust particles seep into the ground, streams,
and creeks boarding airports, endangering the health of downstream
communities. Up to 90 percent of the aircraft hydrocarbon and carbon
monoxide emissions occur as the planes idle and taxi.
Aviation is the only transport form not regulated in any significant way to
reduce environmental impact. In 1998, the Environmental Organization of
Copenhagen (EOC) published a report calling airports "environmental bombs"
and noting that aviation "seems to be a 'sacred cow,' excluded from all
legislation to minimize environmental impact and damage."
President Clinton has just signed the $40 billion Airport Expansion Act
(AIR-21). The act funds a 33 percent increase in airport construction and
expansion. This will expand the already large circles of pollutants in the
air around major airports, causing harm to the health of millions of people
as well as the environment. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
which is supposed to regulate the airline industry, is also charged with
promoting this act. Solutions do exist. Towing aircraft to and from
terminals, using fuel vapor recovery procedures, and modifying jet fuel
could reduce chemicals.


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