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More important, the plan might actually lead to more breathable air. It calls for a 50% slash in acid-rain-producing sulfur-dioxide emissions by the turn of the century, a 40% tightening of emissions standards for hydrocarbons from automobile tail pipes, a 75% cut in cancer-causing toxic chemicals poured into the atmosphere over an unspecified period, and in its most visionary -- perhaps pie-in-the-sky -- aspect, a fleet of cars that run on fuels cleaner than gasoline (probably methanol, though ethanol or compressed natural gas could also be used). Some 500,000 such cars would...
...company that is having trouble meeting its standard. While the total reduction would be the same, both companies would cut costs: the seller because it would get extra money, and the buyer because it might be less expensive for it to purchase pollution rights than to make the required slash in emissions immediately...
...proposals on the discharge of toxic chemicals into the air are the least detailed part of his plan. Bush will ask Congress to revise ineffectual laws from the 1970s and order all polluters to adopt whatever the Environmental Protection Agency defines as the "maximum available control technology" to slash those emissions...
...years, there are no realistic prospects of deploying a Star Wars system for a decade. SDI has remained singularly unpopular in Congress, which has cut every White House request for SDI funding. This year Bush himself reduced the Reagan request from $5.6 billion to $4.6 billion, and Congress might slash even more...
...ceiling of 275,000 each for U.S. and Soviet troops in Europe. That would require a cut of 30,000 soldiers for the U.S. -- 10% of overall strength or, as Bush pledged, 20% of combat troops. The Soviets would have to slash their troop strength nearly in half. All soldiers sent home would be demobilized. As with aircraft, the U.S. had previously refused even to consider troop cuts, claiming they were unverifiable...