People Start It Pollution Ad Campaign Aims to Shift Blame
Industrial interests launch a slogan People start pollution People can stop it to deflect blame from industry. Three scientists conclude pollution stems from specific industrial processes rather than population or consumption. Pollutants rose sharply 1956-58 while per capita GDP grew modestly.
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Gladwin Hill
New York Times
Los Angeles
Barry Commoner
Washington University
Michael Carr
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Paul Stamler
Lake Erie
New York Harbor
Huge Pollution Rise Tied To Production Boom
Background analysis links pollution surge to production growth from 1946 to 1968. Plastics use jumped 1 024 percent while mercury use in major industries rose 2 150 percent. Synthetic chemicals up 495 percent and nitrogen fertilizer 534 percent. Detergents up 300 percent and electric power 276 percent.
Railroad acquitted in Decatur air pollution case
The Indiana Pollution Control Board rejected charges against Norfolk and Western Railroad saying the state EPA failed to prove emissions violations at the Decatur facility. The board accepted federal figures, which the railroad later challenged as irrelevant due to equipment and coal differences.
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Bill Prater
Lindsay-Schaub
Charleston
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Decatur
State Pollution Control Board
David Currie
State Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
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