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...also says something about how difficult it will be for Bush to break what he called the "environmental gridlock" on Capitol Hill now that the clean-air battle is joined. Twelve years have passed since Congress amended the Clean Air Act of 1970. If partisan bickering continues, it may be another year before the gridlock is broken. The hot air will have to dissipate before the clean air can return...
Skirmishing over the clean-air proposals was inevitable. From the start, it was clear that the White House's plan for cutting urban smog and toxic pollutants was far more lenient toward industry than was Bush's widely praised proposal for reducing acid rain. The clean-air plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged...
Environmentalists are also troubled by Bush's flimsy guarantee that only three U.S. cities -- Los Angeles, Houston and New York City -- will fail to meet federal air-quality standards by the year 2000. Critics say that the Bush plan might allow as many as six other cities to miss that deadline. EPA Administrator William Reilly insisted the charge was wrong, but his rebuttal was a bit halfhearted. "I could understand," he said, "how they could conclude that...
Despite their misgivings, the environmentalists concede that in some respects the President's plan has been improved. Perhaps anticipating an outcry from the left, Bush's aides added unexpected new restrictions on coal- fired power plants that would require utilities to cap acid-rain-causing emissions after the year 2000. Such provisions help explain why industry largely withheld its endorsement last week. As an Administration official said, "If we're taking fire from both sides, it tells you something about where we are on the political spectrum...
...magazine almost every week. Some assignments are long planned, then take on special urgency after they get under way. When TIME's White House photographer Diana Walker began shooting for her May 22 essay on a day in the life of the President, she had no idea that George Bush would be facing a foreign policy crisis over Panama. Busy as he was, the President still went out of his way to ask, "How can I help make your job easier today?" Chimed in White House photographer David Valdez: "Just pretend she isn't here...