The passage elaborates on three main reasons why the representatives of power companies believe that the new strict rules offered by environmentalist have negative consequences. However, the lecturer holds the view that there should be more strict rules for handling and disposal of coal ash and challenges each point made in the passage.
First, according to the passage, there are already several laws on handling coal ash one of which requires companies to use liner in new ponds and landfills. On the other hand, the lecturer contends that the current law requires power companies to use liner only in newly built landfills and not the old ones. In fact, in old landfills, coal ash can lick to the groundwater and contaminate the drinking water which would significantly damage the environment. Therefore she believes that the laws should be applied to both the new landfills and the old ones.
Second, the author explains that the new laws would discourage people from using recycled materials from coal ash. Nevertheless, the lecturer states that this is not a true assumption. She gives an example of mercury, a hazardous material, to support her opinion. She states that although there are strict rules for using mercury, it has been widely recycled for over 50 years. Thus, passing new laws would not necessarily lower the recycling products' demand.
Third, the author argues that passing new laws would increase coal ash handling cost which would also increase the price of electricity. However, although the lecturer confirms that the new laws can contribute to the increasing price, she maintains that the benefits worth the extra cost. It is estimated these new laws would impose 50 billion dollars to power companies, which can increase the average household bill approximately 1 percent.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 460, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...d significantly damage the environment. Therefore she believes that the laws should be ap...
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Line 3, column 559, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...oth the new landfills and the old ones. Second, the author explains that the new...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, third, thus, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1522.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21232876712 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72865915504 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534246575342 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.7230618118 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.714285714 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8571428571 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64285714286 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.424904504393 0.272083759551 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147726129106 0.0996497079465 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0996093360674 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.26395711677 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0349933242358 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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