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Potential Disaster. In previous years, moreover, when the state legislature tried to enact strong antipollution bills, local industry-especially the pulp and paper companies-hinted that the cost of cleaning up might force them to leave Maine entirely. "Payrolls or pickerel" became the dilemma's label; fish killed by water pollution represented the minimum price for keeping industry and jobs...
Government's first priority is to enact environmental standards?and then enforce the law. Regulatory agencies should do far more to assess new products and policies before they harm man and nature. At all levels, governments must join in regional attacks on air and river pollution that cross political boundaries. At the federal level, the maze of agencies with conflicting environmental responsibilities must be reordered. While the Agriculture Department pays farmers to drain wetlands, for example, the Interior Department pays to preserve them. Worse, the farm-subsidy program encourages the misuse of toxic chemicals, one-crop farming that destroys ecological...
...import quotas, fair-trade laws and tariffs. The U.S. could also strike a mighty blow against inflation if it attacked union apprenticeship rules, which limit the supply and drive up the wages of skilled craftsmen. Economists concede that such structural changes are politically difficult if not impossible to enact. Still, the Government could change some policies that actually promote inflation. At a time of sharp increases in food prices, the Agriculture Department early this month asked Florida growers to set marketing quotas for themselves in order to keep the price of tomatoes up. The Johnson Administration pressured European and Japanese...
...Congress to enact a "buyers' bill of rights." The President declared: "Consumerism is a healthy development that is here to stay." Among other things, he proposed the establishment of a new consumer division in the Justice Department and expanded powers that would enable the FTC to seek injunctions against unfair business practices. As Nader and other consumer activists have long been demanding, the President also asked Congress to allow consumers to join together in "class action" damage suits in federal courts against errant manufacturers or merchants. If found guilty of deceptive trade practices, manufacturers would have to bear all legal...
...also asked the City Council to file a petition in the state legislature requesting permission to enact a rent control...