Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waxman bill--or something like it--probably provides the best hope for a bipartisan acid rain plan. It wisely minimizes conflict between regions and interest groups by fairly spreading the burden of reducing sulfur-dioxide emissions...
...internecine conflict with NCA pits high-sulfur coal producers in the East versus low-sulfur coal producers in the West. A partial solution to the acid rain problem is to increase use of low-sulfur coal, which creates less sulfur dioxide emission. But high-sulfur coal producers argue that such a move will cost them more than 40,000 mining jobs, and nearly four times that number in related fields...
...acid rain legislation has thus far been blocked by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell of Michigan. He and other Midwestern congressmen contend that most bills would unfairly require their constituents to foot the bill for reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions...
Dingell has been myopically intransigent on this matter, and it's time that he started compromising. For one thing, Congress will eventually have to address the acid rain problem anyway. But more important, a consensus on the issue among Democrats could prove an asset at the polls this fall...
Utilities favor a tax on fossil fuels, as car exhausts are partly implicated in acid rain. The proposal might be a good addition to a compromise, "spread the burden" plan...