Word: acidizing
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...reports--both prepared by distinguished scientists--leave no doubt about the seriousness of the acid-rain threat. Whether to act is no longer the issue...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus promised action by August 1. August passed without an announcement. So did September. Finally, at a conference in mid-October, Ruckelshsus said there was to hope for quick action on acid rain. He told the group that the Cabinet Council on Natural Resources--a White House task force--had twice vetoed his proposals, and that he found "we were dealing with a very big, very controversial action...
...week effort to appease the Canadians, Reagan, in his State of the Union message this January, dared to be cautious: he requested $50 million for an experimental program designed to neutralize dangerously acidic lakes. To date, then, Reagan's record on acid rain has been marked by inaction and political expediency...
ABOUT TWO DOZEN bills concerning acid rain are now pending in both houses of Congress, and virtually all call for reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions. Although officially united in opposition to any new legislation, two major lobbying groups--the National Coal Association and the Edison Electric Institute--are privately divided over possible reduction plans...
...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...