Word: waxman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waxman bill--or something like it--probably provides the best hope for a bipartisan acid rain plan. It wisely minimizes conflict between regions and interest groups by fairly spreading the burden of reducing sulfur-dioxide emissions...
Some Congressmen have meanwhile gone ahead on the issue. A bill co-sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman and Gerald Sikorski spreads the burden of paying for emissions reductions. Under the plan, a 1 cent per kilowatt tax would be levied nationwide on utility customers. The $2 billion raised by the tax would be used to subsidize scrubbers for the dirtiest Midwestern power plants. Tax revenues would finance nearly 90 percent of the cost of the scrubbers, which could reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions by about 40 percent in 10 years' time...
...Allen Waxman, Chairman of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee which his now trying to resolve the symbol problem said it really doesn't matter what Joe Dartmouth thinks--the Indian symbolisn't coming back it's now a matter of mobilizing support behind another symbol...
...grand jury has indicted 24 people connected with U.S. Oil and Gas, including Gurdon Wolfson, the company's owner and president, and Larry Waxman, its executive director, for fraud and conspiracy. All pleaded not guilty; if convicted, they face possible fines of $10,000 and three years in prison. In addition, Federal District Judge William Hoeveler, acting on a civil suit filed by the Federal Trade Commission, last week issued an injunction to prevent U.S. Oil and Gas from continuing its fraudulent sales. He froze the company's assets and in effect put it out of business. Said...
...come before the House of Representatives. California Republican William Dannemeyer plans to offer an amendment that would drastically increase the already stringent restrictions on the use of human fetuses for research purposes. A similar measure was passed by the House last year but defeated in the Senate. Congressman Henry Waxman, who opposes the amendment, argues that "fetal research saves lives, prevents or cures chronic diseases and makes pregnancy safer. As a result of such work, reductions in infant mortality and treatments for diabetes, as well as for brain disorders, are on the horizon...