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...passage of its own environmental bills. Whatever the fate of his legislative package, Nixon made it clear that he is determined to tackle two key issues. "The costs of pollution," he stated, "should be met more fully in the free marketplace, not in the federal budget"-meaning that cleanup costs will be reflected in higher prices for goods and services. As to the dilemma involving the exploitation and use of energy resources, which are needed in today's society but account for most of the nation's environmental problems, the President vowed to treat the subject fully...
...Cleanup. As if to stamp their approval on the new outburst of public concern, the Soviets have begun to take remedial action. Most recently they announced that Russia, like the U.S. and Great Britain, will set up an environmental-protection service to police air and water pollution throughout the nation. Beyond that, the government will spend over $1 billion to clean up the Volga and Ural drainage basins, $840 million for purifying facilities in 420 factories, and $360 million for sewage-treatment plants in 15 cities. At Irkutsk, new water-treatment plants have already made the Angara River, Mayor...
...recession grew, environmental concerns began to be balanced against business interests and the costs of protective measures that were often too heedlessly demanded by ecological crusaders. The Administration supported the SST, more offshore oil drilling, and fought some air and water cleanup proposals made by Democratic Senators. Nixon's credibility on environmental issues was hurt by his veto of a really rigorous, and expensive, $24.7 billion bill to clean up the nation's waters by 1985. Congress overrode the veto, but whether Nixon will spend the money is in doubt...
...Q.E.2's departure was delayed three days while workmen tried desperately to get it shipshape. Cunard was forced to cough up $250,000 in emergency shore accommodations or air fares home for 1,550 stranded passengers. After the liner finally weighed anchor this week, a cleanup party of 40 workmen was still aboard, hammering their way across the Atlantic...
...never even made it to the floor of either the House or Senate. A fourth, welfare reform, was killed three weeks ago, largely because of Nixon's reluctance to fight for it (TIME, Oct. 16). The major legislation on his two remaining priority goals-a call for environmental cleanup and a plea to Congress "to cooperate in resisting expenditures"-did not come to a showdown until the Congress's last days, when it provided for a rare and dramatic confrontation between the Administration and Capitol Hill...