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...Clean Air Act was no mere piety. It ordered William Ruckelshaus, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to propose a set of national air-quality standards, and within 90 days to determine the final ones. Now Ruckelshaus has done just that, despite protests from the Automobile Manufacturers Association, which calls his rules "disproportionate to any demonstrated health and safety need...
According to the law, the states have until 1972 to present plans for compliance, and if accepted by the EPA, they have until 1975 to carry them out. Auto manufacturers have until 1975 to reduce 1970-level emissions by 90%. Last week they told Ruckelshaus that no matter how much Government pressure is exerted, Detroit will be unable to meet the 1975 deadline...
Among cities where sufficient data are available to make predictions, admits Ruckelshaus, only Cincinnati "could come close" to meeting the federal carbon monoxide deadline-providing automakers meet their own deadline. To reduce particulate and sulfur oxide emissions to required levels, big cities like New York would have to vastly increase their use of low-polluting natural gas, which is already in short supply. Most cities would also have to cut or even ban peak-hour auto commuting-and make up for it by building new, nonpolluting rapid transit systems. Unfortunately, the Government is unlikely to share the cities' staggering...
Even so, the report has caused surprisingly little criticism of its substantive points. "I agree with Ralph Nader," says William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. "We are in danger of creating a water wasteland if we permit to happen in the future what has happened in the past." Ruckelshaus promises "radical changes" in law enforcement...
...Last month William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced that five economic poisons are not "imminent" hazards to humans, and therefore may be used pending further studies. The poisons are the insecticides DDT, aldrin, dieldrin and Mirex, plus 2, 4, 5-T, once widely used as a defoliant by U.S. forces in Viet...