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...popular case. "The state should get out," he said in the initial joust in Bennington, because, among other things, every Vermonter now owes $12,000 toward the national debt. "How can you love the country and leave it?" countered Dooley, noting that a "cute little government will not stop acid rain." At debate's end, the audience voted 95 to 55 in favor of going it alone...
After years of squabbling over efforts to update the 1970 clean-air law, Democratic leader George Mitchell last week got the Senate and the Bush Administration to compromise. Even West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, wary of the threat the new bill's acid-rain provisions could pose to the coal industry, supports...
...strategy is not so strange as it sounds; the Environmental Protection Agency has used it since the 1970s to curb pollution in selected cities. Now President George Bush has made the trading of pollution rights the centerpiece of his plan to combat acid rain across the U.S. His proposal has attracted an ideologically diverse band of supporters, from conservative economists, who despise standard types of Government regulations, to environment-minded legislators, who are ready for a fresh approach to pollution control. Says Senator Timothy Wirth, a Colorado Democrat: "We're not going to be able to make a dent...
Under Bush's plan, the Government would set a national limit on emissions of sulfur dioxide, a prime cause of acid rain. But, instead of dictating how to meet the target, the Government would let the marketplace determine the cheapest, most efficient way to get the job done. Each company would be allotted an acceptable level of SO2 production, amounting to its fair share of the national limit. If a company managed to pollute less than its share, it could receive permits representing the shortfall, which it could sell to firms that could not meet their target. That is where...
That's why we won't be paying that much attention to Sunday's game at the Superdome. Come on, John Elway vs. Joe Montana? Who really cares? Besides, I (Julio) can't stand either team. Elway looks like Tom Cruise on acid. Even though I (Jen) think Jim Kelly is the greatest quarterback in the history of Western civilization (yeah, right, Julio says), Montana is kind of cute...