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Article: Impatient With U.S., States Act Against Acid Rain; Coal-Burning Plants Ordered to Cut Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide; EPA Taken to Court
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- The Washington Post
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- April 28, 1988
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With maple trees dying in Vermont and lakes turning acidic in
Wisconsin, many states have become as frustrated as Canada in waiting
for comprehensive federal controls on acid rain and several have
taken environmental law into their own hands.
By ordering coal-burning plants within their borders to cut
sulfur dioxide discharges as much as 50 percent and by suing the
Environmental Protection Agency to impose similar controls on the
biggest polluters outside their borders, the upper midwestern and
northeastern states are waging what New York Attorney General Robert
Abrams calls "guerrilla war" against the Reagan administration.
Visting Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney echoed their ...