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...Emergency Energy Act. Designed basically to give the President special powers to deal with the energy crisis, the bill also contains three amendments that would set back the environmental movement. One gives the auto industry another year (until 1977 models come out) to meet federal restrictions on exhaust emissions. Another strips the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to levy federal taxes on urban parking space after 1975 and thus to discourage driving in fume-choked cities. The third deals with some 45 power plants that the Federal Energy Office has ordered to switch from oil to coal; these plants...
...mile run, Frazier has concentrated on building his stamina. He intends to fight Ali the way he did three years ago: "Stay in on him, keep him moving back, don't give him the big punch." Constant forced retreat, he is sure, will exhaust Ali. As usual Frazier is not intimidated by any of Ali's verbal attacks. "Ali can rap," Joe says. "I can fight...
Under the law, emissions of two noxious gases in auto exhaust-carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons-must be cut by 90% of 1970 levels in 1976-model cars. Techniques to do that, however, lead to an increase in a third pollutant, nitrogen oxides. The law says that, in 1977-model cars, they must be cut 90% below the level in the 1971s. Most auto engineers feel that they cannot meet that second deadline...
...model cars that will be sold in California and wherever else the automakers wish. According to GM, this "catalytic converter" will improve gas mileage by up to 13% and make cars perform as well as in the good old days. Shaped like a muffler and attached to the exhaust system, it will also convert hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide into water vapor and other harmless compounds...
...energy crisis. But, say GM and the EPA, the loss of oil in producing unleaded gas will be more than balanced by the improved gas mileage that cars with converters will get. While the debate rages, precious time is slipping by. Detroit has an extra year to cleanse auto exhaust completely, but the job looks as difficult as ever...