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Power Alternatives

NPR

Published April 17, 2001 at 9:00 PM PDT

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that many environmentalists are worried by some energy providers' plans to pay businesses to use generators when power demand is high. The generators are a heavy source of pollution.