Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain

Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain (CSCAR) operated between 1983 and 1991 to oppose tightening the Clean Air Act. 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.

Funding
Funded by the coal and electric industry. Specific companies included:
 * American Cyanamid Company
 * Consolidation Coal Company
 * Indianapolis Power and Light Company
 * Jersey Central Power and Light Company
 * Metropolitan Edison Company
 * Ohio Edison Company
 * Pennsylvania Electric Company
 * Peabody Holding Company
 * Southern Company
 * Services Union Electric Company

Related SourceWatch articles

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Other Resources

 * Paul R. Samson, "Non-State Actors and Environmental Assessment: North American Acid Rain and Global Climate Change",ENRP Discussion Paper E-98-10, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, September 1998.
 * Michael Weisskopf, "Industry's Covert War On an Acid Rain Bill," Washington Post, September 25, 1986, p. A23.