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Bush's environmental record has Al Gore licking his chops. Texas leads the country in a frightening array of toxin- and carcinogen-release statistics, and last year Houston passed Los Angeles for the dubious distinction of America's smoggiest city. Though some emission levels have declined in recent years, four metro areas are flunking EPA clean-air standards. To achieve compliance, Houston will have to reduce nitrous-oxide emissions as much as 90%. Faced with this crisis--and the presidential race--Texas officials are moving quickly to draw up new plans to reduce emissions. And Bush has asked his regulators...
...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...
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