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Last week Ralph Nader offered a gloomy answer: a 700-page report entitled Water Wasteland, the product of a 21-month study by one of Nader's numerous teams of "raiders." Despite 15 years of effort, seven laws and more than $3 billion in expenditures, say the researchers, the federal program to curb water pollution is "a miserable failure...
Laggard States. The main problem, asserts the Nader group, is the federal program's failure to control industrial effluents. They account for at least 50% of the oxygen-consuming wastes handled by municipal water-treatment plants, many of which are thus overloaded. They also include very dangerous contaminants (arsenic, cadmium, mercury), which few treatment plants can remove from drinking water. Even advanced plants, says the report, may be unable to handle the estimated 500 new chemicals that industry develops each year...
During his prepared remarks, Bayh said an attack on corporations will continue if corporations do not find a place for social responsibility in their structure. Bayh said he supports Campaign GM-an effort organized by a Ralph Nader-backed group of Washington lawyers to force General Motors to accept its social responsibility through a proxy vote...
Campaign GM, a group of Washington lawyers supported by Ralph Nader, has placed three proposals on the General Motors Corporation proxy statement. These proposals would...
Which is why Rags is the kind of magazine that even Ralph Nader could freak out over...