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Under the Clean Air Act passed in 1970, urban areas that could not meet national clean-air standards,* designed to protect human health, were told to propose cleanup plans that would meet these standards by 1975. Only a handful of states submitted adequate programs, in the opinion of the EPA. Of the urban areas cited last week, the only city to have its own plan accepted was New York; the other 18 flunked, or did not submit plans, and were assigned compliance schedules by the agency...
Though there were rumors that Connally might be appointed Secretary of State or head a White House cleanup, he insisted that he has not been offered a post in Washington or even sounded out for one. At the moment, he plans to stay in Houston, where he is engaged in various business ventures. "I don't want to go up there again," he said. "I haven't been out of it long enough for it to suit me." His wife Nellie, who dutifully joined him in political conversion, also prefers Houston. Added Connally: "We all serve in different...
...consumes almost one-third of its total energy output, only about 4% of the gross national product is required to pay the bill. Nixon has proposed that energy prices "reflect their true cost" -which increasingly includes ransom-sized tax increases by the oil barons of the Middle East, environmental cleanup expenditures and other indirect expenses that U.S. consumers are hardly accustomed to having tacked onto their electric bills or service-station tabs. "The days of cheap energy are definitely behind us," Robert Dunlop, chairman of Sun Oil Co., told the Nassau conference...
Maliver himself admits that "there seem to be clear-cut positive effects for some participants." But he believes that "the encounter house" is badly in need of a cleanup. Although the growth centers where encounter flourishes often insist that their aim is not to treat emotional disturbances but to enrich life for normal men and women, the groups in fact attract many people in need of therapy. Nevertheless, there is rarely any screening to keep out those most likely to be harmed when buried problems surface...
Ruckelshaus hopes that automen will also use their extra year to explore alternate cleanup techniques. Among the most promising: a "stratified-charge" engine now being readied for mass production by Honda of Japan; it seems to require less change in the basic internal-combustion engine than any other antipollution idea and has extremely high fuel efficiency to boot. Environmentalists fear that Detroit will choose to concentrate its energies on a lobbying campaign to get the Clean Air Act weakened, and Ruckelshaus himself believes that there may be lawsuits aimed at overturning his decision...