Word: cleanups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barrels," cracked House Majority Leader Har rison L. Richardson. As a result, a bipartisan legislative committee, helped by Governor Curtis' staff, confidently wrote tough new bills to control the future industrial development of Maine. One measure provides for a $4,000,000 fund to finance the cleanup of any oil spills. The companies will have to pay a half-cent levy on every barrel of oil they move into or out of Maine-a prospect that displeases some companies so much that they may test the law's constitutionality. In addition, the law states that the oil companies...
...major share of this cleanup cost would have to be met by the Government. U.S. cities and towns will need $10 billion by 1975 just to meet current water quality standards, plus an additional $6 billion to build and repair sewer lines under city streets. It will take even more for municipalities to go further and separate the main and storm sewers that now flow together to contribute so heavily to the pollution problem. This would push the total cost to $50 billion...
...Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, the city's urban-renewal agency, has a commendable if uncontrollable passion for keeping Philadelphia tidy. When a Licenses and Inspection Department worker recently spied some trash in the backyard of one of the agency's properties, a cleanup order was promptly issued by the authority...