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...environmental legislation to emerge from Congress. Passed in 1970 at a time of heightened concern about pollution, the law empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to begin a much needed atmospheric cleanup. It required the EPA to set strict limits on seven major pollutants, including toxic agents such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and lead. It mandated steady reductions in emissions from automotive tail pipes and factory smokestacks. It also gave the EPA power to force the states, some of whom showed little or no interest in curbing pollutants, to comply with the tough new federal standards...
...live in Mexico's southeast are the Mexicans closest to their nation's oil wealth, yet least likely to receive a share of it. Those living outside Coatzacoalcos, an oil boom town, complain bitterly about the arrogance of PEMEX, which can unilaterally expropriate their land. They say that the sulfur in the air corrodes the tin roofs of their shacks, and that their cows have died from drinking contaminated water. The land has become less fertile, with crop yields declining by as much as 30 per cent...
Accrue nuclear waste, cut forests, burn fossil fuels: Earth devolves into 2nd Venus of carbon dioxide atmosphere (90 times greater pressure), 900 degrees farenheit--and sulfur rain! Henry Ratliff...
...some pollutants would be rolled back to limits in effect in 1977. The rule designed to prevent significant deterioration of current air quality would be relaxed so that industries could expand in areas where pollution is now below the national maximum. And new coal plants would face less stringent sulfur-emission requirements...
Clean Air Act. First passed 1970, the must be reauthorized this year, and Senators of both parties from northern industrial states are lining up behind Democrat Gary Hart of Colorado to fight for tougher restrictions on sulfur emissions, in order to reduce acid rain. The Administration will probably attempt to ease many of the bill's existing restrictions as part of its campaign against Government regulations which could lead to a pitched battle with Hart and his allies...