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- <title>
- Mar. 12, 1990: American Notes:Pollution
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- POLLUTION
- Compromise On Clean Air
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> After years of squabbling over efforts to update the 1970
- clean-air law, Democratic leader George Mitchell last week got
- the Senate and the Bush Administration to compromise. Even West
- Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, wary of the threat the new bill's
- acid-rain provisions could pose to the coal industry, supports
- it.
- </p>
- <p> Mitchell's compromise got chilly reviews from industry
- lobbyists and environmentalists. Automakers complain that it
- would impose emission standards that cannot be met by the 1993
- deadline. Some environmentalists charge that Mitchell caved in
- to the auto and oil industries by weakening provisions calling
- for increased use of alternative fuels. But with Senate approval
- likely, pressure will build on the House to finish its own
- clean-air bill so that the two can be reconciled.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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