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and climbed its stacks to measure CO2, NOx, SO2, heavy metals, and particulate emissions. This was long ago, during the gee-dubya era, and emissions were atrocious. I wouldn’t want to live within a 20-mile radius of it, even if they can curb emissions. Mercury, cadmium, arsenic, nickel, chromium, and lead were all present in samples taken. These toxic elements settle out relatively quickly compared to greenhouse emissions, which end up everywhere. It wasn’t in the scope of my work to sample soil, but I’d have loved to see what lurked in some intrepid gardener’s plot in that little town.