World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-11-03
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[0:00] Good evening everybody.
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[0:15] On World News tonight this Wednesday,
[0:17] the government sues some of the
[0:18] country's biggest utilities, a giant
[0:21] escalation in the pollution wars. A
[0:23] guilty verdict in the brutal beating
[0:25] death of a gay college student. A high
[0:28] school tired of being average will take
[0:30] a closer look at how to get results
[0:32] without spending too much.
[0:34] And fierce inspiration, a musician who
[0:37] learns about life from unusual
[0:39] companions.
[0:48] From ABC News world headquarters in New
[0:50] York.
[0:52] This is World News tonight with Peter
[0:54] Jennings.
[0:55] >> Good evening. This was a big day in the
[0:56] never-ending pollution wars between
[0:58] government and some of the country's
[1:00] utilities companies. The Justice
[1:02] Department has filed suit today against
[1:04] several large electric utility companies
[1:06] and their subsidiaries. They're accused
[1:08] of causing massive and dangerous
[1:11] pollution knowingly. The Environmental
[1:13] Protection Agency estimates that if they
[1:15] had spent the money to fix up their
[1:16] plants, it would have been the same as
[1:18] taking 26 million cars off the road.
[1:22] Here's ABC's Barry Serafin.
[1:25] The government is accusing utilities of
[1:28] allowing coal-fired power plants like
[1:29] this one to spew 3 million tons of
[1:32] pollutants a year across the eastern
[1:34] part of the country. 3 million tons a
[1:36] year. The actions of these companies
[1:38] compromised our health and degraded the
[1:41] environment from Nashville to New
[1:43] Hampshire. The emissions include sulfur
[1:46] dioxide,