Lot of Antipollution Promises but Little Action
Sacramento reads like a chorus of promises on cleaning the environment with little funding or follow through. Key figures such as John Zierold Alfred Alquist James A Hayes George Milias push bills on suits environmental rights and coastline protection while noting 1970 budget limits. Proposals to tax auto and cigarette usage to fund environmental aims face unpopularity. Milias warns 140 acres daily vanish to subdivisions and Open space loss will persist through 1980 per USDA.
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Hahn proposes US Bureau on Air Pollution
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn urged creation of a National Air Pollution Bureau directed by a fearless leader reporting to the President. He called for focus on large corporations including Detroit automakers and cited $44.5 million in crop damage from smog in California and the Bay Area. In Sacramento, the Senate committee endorsed a bill banning public agencies from meetings in racially or religiously or sexually restricted buildings.
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