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The Nation - News from Dec. 12, 1985

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The Reagan Administration may not decide how to attack the problem of acid rain for three more years, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee M. Thomas told a hostile Senate hearing. Thomas’ statement added a year to his previous estimate for when the Administration would recommend a program for combatting the acidic deposits from vehicle and fossil fuel boilers that environmentalists say are destroying lakes and forests around the nation.

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