Tougher 30% emissions cut would be cheaper than expected: report 4.

A37 Plan to Fight Houston Smog Texas officials approved a plan that would reduce highway speeds, cut industrial emissions and limit use of construction equipment.

If emissions are not cut and temperatures rise as many scientists project, the Reuters agency quoted the report as saying that, among various impacts, melting glaciers would threaten one sixth of the world population by raising sea levels and drying up river sources.

In the thick forests around Baia Mare, 240 miles northwest of Bucharest, the toxic emissions of this metallurgical center have cut plant growth in half.

Scientists predict that the planet will warm by 2 to 6 degrees over the next 100 years (the best estimate is 3.5 degrees) if emissions of the heat-trapping gases are not cut.

In the end, he helped produce honorable legislation that would halve the automobile emissions that produce urban smog, cut substantially the sulfur dioxide emissions that cause acid rain and increase Federal control over a wide range of toxic pollutants.