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...reason the U.S. Government has been in a quandary about what to do on the issue of acid-rain pollution is the widespread assumption that the cost of a cleanup would be prohibitive. Now a computer model of the economic impact of two acid-rain-control bills before Congress suggests the opposite is true...
...phone call to make, Ronald Reagan was once asked, whom would he dial? He answered unhesitatingly with two words: Ed Meese. So it was hardly surprising last week that Reagan, facing the most serious crisis of his presidency, would turn to his longtime confidant, political protector and general cleanup man, Edwin Meese. "I think we're now getting back to the old Ed Meese," says Ed Salzman, publisher of the Golden State Report and a veteran Meese watcher, "the guy who kept Reagan out of trouble...
...referendum questions, the candidates agree only on Question 4, which would impose deadlines and quotas for hazardous waste cleanup on the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering...
...policies are aimed not at inadvertant spills, but at serious dumpers. "Not only will they have to pay for cleanup and damages, they will be behind bars," he said...
Despite the renewal of the federal Superfund program, the clean-up effort will be expensive. Some of the cost of cleanup will be borne by polluters, and the Superfund will help with the most urgent and expensive projects. The bulk of the cost, however, will fall on state taxpayers in the form of increased taxes and bond issues. That's why voting for the tax ceiling proposed in Question 3 would be serious mistake. According to a recent poll, almost two-thirds of Massachusetts voters were willing to pay an extra $100 in taxes to fund the clean-up effort...