The sentence
marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from
burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from
burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant
producing the same amount of energy.»
In the same period, a report for President Lyndon Johnson from the President's Science Advisory Council in 1965 said the
burning of fossil fuels «may be sufficient to
produce measurable and perhaps
marked changes in climate» by the year 2000.