CLEAN AIR PLAN GETS TENTATIVE OK.Byline: Gregory J. Wilcox Daily News Staff Writer A business-friendly plan to clean California's air passed a major test Monday when it won a preliminary endorsement from the federal Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and . It's the first time time the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. has supported a state pollution control plan and makes it unlikely the agency will order stricter, more costly regulations to bring California's air into compliance with federal standards by 2010. A final decision will be made later this year after a series of public hearings, said EPA spokesman Bill Glenn. State officials submitted their plan for federal review in November 1994. Elements include cleaner-burning heavy-duty trucks, cleaner gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by for cars and light trucks and a tougher smog check program. "These plans, if faithfully carried out, should mean healthy air for all Californians in the years to come," said Felicia Marcus, regional administrator for the U.S. EPA's western region. She said California has considerable flexibility in how it chooses to meet clean air goals. In many instances business can choose the least costly reduction method. Critics, however, continued to hammer at the state's pollution control plan, saying it is long on promise and short on specific technologies that will be used. "There are no real measures in the plan," said Gail Ruderman Feuer, the Natural Resources Defense Council's senior attorney, and wife of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. City Councilman Mike Feuer. "It is a 'wish list' of what state and local governments would like to see over the next 15 years," she said. Linda Waade, executive director of the Coalition for Clean Air, said the state should rethink its pollution fighting strategy. The plan gives businesses too much leeway lee·way n. 1. The drift of a ship or an aircraft to leeward of the course being steered. 2. A margin of freedom or variation, as of activity, time, or expenditure; latitude. See Synonyms at room. and relies on unproven unproven Dubious, nonscientific, not proven, quack, questionable, unscientific adjective Relating to that which has not been validated by reproducible experiments or other scientific methods for determining effect or efficacy technologies, she said. "We would like to see more meat on the bones," Waade said. But Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that was encouraged by the EPA's action. "This is the first time the federal government has truly embraced a partnership with California," he said in a statement. |
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