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...Clean Air Act now leaves it up to William D. Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to decide what to do. If he finds that a break for Detroit is essential to the public interest, he must grant the extension. If he believes that the automakers are shirking, he must deny it-thereby possibly shutting down the nation's mightiest industry until it can make the clean cars. Adding drama to the decision making is the fact that Ruckelshaus turned down a similar request for more time last year. He held last week's hearings only because...
...converters simply are not reliable enough to do the required job. Last week Chrysler Vice President Sydney L. Terry testified that "40% of our test cars using the catalytic system failed within 5,000 miles." For emphasis, his colleague, Engineer Charles M. Heinen, laid a burned metal tube on Ruckelshaus' table. "This is a catalyticconverter failure," he said. "We had temperature sensors and control devices all over it and they didn't do a damn bit of good." Indeed, the word "failure" was repeated again and again in all the automakers' testimony...
Testimony before the EPA will continue until midweek as the foreign auto manufacturers have their say. After that, Ruckelshaus has 60 days to make what is surely the hardest decision of his career...
...woman who threw down the strongest challenge to the opponents of ERA, and who drew the heaviest applause, was Jill Ruckelshaus, 36, mother of five children under twelve and wife of Nixon's director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Mrs. Ruckelshaus addressed herself to "the hundreds of thousands of women in this country who aren't here, who don't want to be here, who don't understand why they should be here. We need to help those women, to raise their sense of worth." The question was whether the members of the Caucus could reach...
...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 rationing that would reduce gasoline consumption by over 80% during the smoggiest six months of the year...