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Sulfur Tax. The most controversial of Nixon's proposals was to levy the U.S.'s first pollution tax on the harmful sulfur oxides that spew from electric power plants, smelters and refineries. The tax, starting in 1976, would apply only to industries in areas that already have high air-pollution levels, but it would establish what Nixon called "the principle that the costs of pollution should be included in the price of the product...
...been estimated that more than 500 million pages of printed material spew forth each year from United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan. Last week, as a delegation representing Mao Tse-tung's China formally took its place in the great cave of winds known as the General Assembly, it was easy to see why. There were no fewer than 56 welcoming addresses, spinning out for 51 hours...
Principal source of Birmingham's smog is a clutch of 23 heavy-industry companies (including U.S. Steel and Republic Steel), whose smokestacks spew out tons of sooty particles each day. Last April, when a similar temperature inversion occurred, most of the companies ignored requests from local health authorities and the EPA to cut back production, and held out until a shift in the weather blew the problem away...
...tons of polluting petroleum products every year to float on the seas' sensitive surface. Up to 1.8 million tons come from automobile exhaust emissions which rise into the atmosphere and eventually precipitate onto the ocean surface. Tankers spill another million. The world's polluted rivers spew out the rest...
...Swiss are to restoring the beauty and purity of their waters, there is a limit to what they can accomplish by themselves. Geneva, Lugano and many other lakes lie on Switzerland's borders with France and Italy, which have so far shown little concern about the wastes they spew into the mountain waters...