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Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(CSCAR) operated between 1983 and 1991 to oppose tightening the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clean_Air_Act" title="Clean Air Act" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Clean Air Act</a>. In a 1986 letter sent to more than 600,000 constituents, CSCAR claimed that the acid rain bill would cost some $110 billion to industry and utilities and increase the electricity rate by 30 percent.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_Sensible_Control_of_Acid_Rain#Funding" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="toctext">Funding</span></a></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Funded by the coal and electric industry. Specific companies included:</p>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Cyanamid_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Cyanamid Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">American Cyanamid Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consolidation_Coal_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Consolidation Coal Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Consolidation Coal Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Indianapolis_Power_and_Light_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indianapolis Power and Light Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Indianapolis Power and Light Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jersey_Central_Power_and_Light_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jersey Central Power and Light Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Jersey Central Power and Light Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Edison_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Metropolitan Edison Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Metropolitan Edison Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ohio_Edison_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ohio Edison Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ohio Edison Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Electric_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pennsylvania Electric Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Pennsylvania Electric Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peabody_Holding_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peabody Holding Company (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Peabody Holding Company</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_Company" title="Southern Company" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Southern Company</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_R._Samson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul R. Samson (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Paul R. Samson</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://environment.harvard.edu/gea/pubs/e-98-10full.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Non-State Actors and Environmental Assessment: North American Acid Rain and Global Climate Change"</a>,ENRP Discussion Paper E-98-10,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kennedy_School_of_Government" title="Kennedy School of Government" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Kennedy School of Government</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Harvard University</a>, September 1998.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Weisskopf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Weisskopf (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Michael Weisskopf</a>, "Industry's Covert War On an Acid Rain Bill,"<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><i>Washington Post</i>, September 25, 1986, p. A23.</li>

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