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- ENVIRONMENT, Page 57A Plan to Help the Planet
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- Most policymakers would rather wait until the greenhouse
- effect and other environmental threats have irrefutably arrived
- before taking remedial action. Not Senator Albert Gore. "When
- you look at the overall pattern, the image is so clear that
- further delay is utterly irresponsible," he says. "We know
- enough right now to justify moving as quickly as possible to
- change the practices that are causing the worst environmental
- destruction in history."
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- The Tennessee Democrat is not just talking: last week he
- introduced a bill in Congress containing steps aimed at halting
- the deterioration of the environment. For one thing, the
- proposed law would replace the White House's Council on
- Environmental Quality with a new body. Called the Council on
- World Environmental Policy, it would refocus attention on
- ecological problems of the planet as a whole. The bill also
- calls for tougher U.S. fuel-economy standards for autos and a
- phased-in ban on chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that
- exacerbate the greenhouse effect and destroy the stratosphere's
- protective ozone layer.
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