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...ACID RAIN Calling for a $5 Billion Remedy...
...report was a joint U.S.-Canadian effort, but its barely diguised aim was to persuade Ronald Reagan that acid rain is a serious problem that requires immediate action, not merely more research. Reagan's repeated refusal to take any steps to curb sulfur-dioxide emissions from U.S. coal-burning factories has been a persistent source of friction between the two nations. The President and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney agreed last winter that Drew Lewis, former U.S. Transportation Secretary, and William Davis, former premier of Ontario, should suggest a course of action before the next U.S.-Canada summit, scheduled...
...death," Lewis said after reporting to the President. But Budget Director Jim Miller asked the obvious question: "Where do we get the money?" The proposal calls for half the funds to come from the Government and half from the polluting industries. Reagan, who has argued privately that acid rain is a natural rather than a man-made phenomenon, promised only to give the report careful consideration. AUTO SAFETY More States Buckle...
...waffling became evident as early as March, when Mulroney returned from his meeting with President Reagan in Quebec City with little more on the highly sensitive acid rain issue than U.S. promises to study the already overstudied problem. Then in June, Ottawa backed away from its plan to reduce Canada's federal deficit by changing the indexation of old-age pensions. In August, many Canadians were offended when Ottawa failed to take the initiative in protesting the passage of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage, which Canada claims as a territorial waterway...
Similar expressions of disappointment greeted last week's announcement that a U.S.-Canadian team studying acid rain would recommend a $5 billion program to develop new technology but would do nothing in the meantime to reduce acid emissions from industrial polluters across the border, primarily in the Ohio Valley...