Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain

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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

Articles and resources

Related SourceWatch articles

• Front groups

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.