Word: epa
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...would be rationed in some areas. Parking in major cities would be severely curtailed. New exhaust-control devices, although technically far from perfect, would be required on old as well as new cars. Most startlingly, the EPA proposals suggested that by 1977, limits on gasoline sales could force most automobiles off the streets of Los Angeles, a city almost totally dependent upon the internal combustion engine. The thrust of the proposed new controls would be to make it increasingly difficult for Americans to add their cars' pollution to the gases that already hover over the nation's major...
Among the EPA proposals...
...other cities cited by the EPA were Springfield, Mass.; Indianapolis; Camden and Trenton, N.J.; Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo; El Paso, Austin and Waco, Corpus Christi, Houston-Galveston, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth. These areas, although somewhat cleaner, would be subject to similar measures...
...moving so boldly, EPA was essentially saying that the states themselves had not moved boldly enough...
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...