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...doubts remained, the Environmental Protection Agency clearly showed last week that it means business. In the largest fine ever levied on behalf of an antipollution measure, EPA won a judgment in U.S. district court against Ford Motor Co. for $3,500,000, plus other counts settled out of court for an additional...
Ford employees, EPA asserted, had deliberately tampered with 1973 model cars in order to make them seem less polluting than they actually were. In so doing, Ford violated federal clean-air laws. The court found Ford guilty of 350 criminal counts, at the maximum fine of $10,000 for each. Ford did not contest the charges. In fact, the company itself had first reported the tampering to authorities and transferred the four responsible employees out of its testing department. Ford also made a strong pitch for suspension of federal emission standards for 1975 and 1976. President Lee A. lacocca told...
...Environmental Protection Agency will hold hearings on Monday to investigate the shortage of the low sulfur fuels. The regional administrator of the EPA expressed amazement yesterday that the reported shortage of the low sulfur fuel could come so suddenly...
...Rationing. The most startling of the strategies is to be announced in the city that has by far the worst smog problem: Los Angeles. State officials despaired-the city is almost completely dependent on cars for transportation-and they asked the EPA to help provide an answer for them. Meantime two nearby cities filed suit for faster action, and the court ruled that EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus would have to reveal his proposal for L.A. this week. With no time to develop a really workable plan, he is expected to announce an unprecedented interim expedient: World War II-style...
...Angeles Times editorialized: "That our cars have made a health-harming and aesthetic mess of things is undeniable. But calling a screaming halt to auto use would be more destructive still." Los Angeles' neighbors disagree. The cities of Riverside and San Bernardino, which filed the suit to speed EPA action, are suffocating under a pall of Los Angeles' pollutants; they lie at the end of a natural funnel east of L.A.-and the prevailing winds blow from the west. Says their lawyer, Mary Nichols: "They see the Clean Air Act as their only hope...