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often higher operating costs, as well as new thrusts in
research and development activities. Frank E. Haarhoff,
Senior Editor of Factory, indicates that in 1971 total
industry (manufacturing and utilities) spent $1,240,600,000
of capital expenditures for pollution control; this amount
had increased to $2,766,200,000 in 1974, a 54.9% increase.3
But the effort is not one-sided, for these research and
development efforts have produced many advances in scientific
knowledge that are being used in practical applications to
reduce costs in some enterprises.4
In our free enterprise economic system, the role of pro-
ducing the goods and services needed and demanded by society
is assigned primarily to privately-owned business firms.
These organizations and a few government-owned facilities
have produced a large portion of the total pollutants in the
course of providing their goods and services. Individuals,
private households, and municipalities also contribute sig-
nificant amounts, but manufacturers and power producing
corporations are viewed by the public as the major culprits.
Therefore, the thrust of the legislative acts have been
directed particularly against these privately-owned business
3Frank Haarhoff, "Easing of Environmental Laws," Factory,
VII (November, 1974), 29.
4Donald May, "A Silver Lining in the Pollution Cloud,"
Management Review, LXII (May, 1973), 24-28.
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Thibodeaux, Mary Shepherd. The state of the art in environmental pollution control and impact analysis, dissertation, May 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332517/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .