The new initiative could also help the SEC decide about kill switches, which turn off trading outside specified parameters in order to help curtail a disaster.

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With 40, 000 pounds of nitrogen spilling into Jamaica Bay everyday, underwater forests of algae are threatening to kill off existing life in the water in much the same way that they did in the turn of the century.

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