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Environmental leaders on the toxics and Santa Monica Bay issues said Friday they would campaign to rouse political rebellion against air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin, including an initiative that would impose new regulations on motorists and business hours.
Assemblyman Tom Hayden (D-Santa Monica) said his political organization of volunteers and celebrities would push an initiative for the 1990 ballot if local officials don't crack down on air pollution. His organization, Campaign California, played a key role in the statewide toxics initiative, Proposition 65, that voters passed last year.
"The bottom line is we need to create a new citizen-based air pollution lobby," Hayden said. Local officials will be given a deadline to take the smog problem more seriously-"less than two years," Hayden...