Word: antismog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elimination of 70% of smog-producing emissions in the Los Angeles area by the year 2000. In the plan's first five-year phase, 123 separate regulations will ban the use of aerosol hair sprays and deodorants and require companies, regardless of the cost, to install the best antismog equipment available. But one of the plan's primary objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First, it imposes stricter emission standards and forces employers to encourage car pooling. Then it calls for conversion of most vehicles to methanol and other cleaner burning fuels. Finally...
...person a day for the first five years, or about $2.79 billion a year, opponents believe the price tag could be as high as $15 billion a year. A study prepared at the University of Southern California calculated the resultant loss in jobs -- mainly from companies forced by added antismog costs to relocate -- to be in excess of 30,000. "This area used to be called the promised land," complained Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, one of two members of the district management board who voted against passage. "Now it's going to be a wasteland...
...other cities were forced to reduce their output. West Berlin was the hardest-hit area. For two days pollution alerts were broadcast hourly on local radio and television stations, and some West Berliners looked like surgeons as they wandered along the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, the city's famed boulevard, wearing antismog masks...