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Mexico City industries told to clean up or go
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MEXICO CITY Officials unveiled Tuesday an ambitious plan to clean
up dirty industries in Mexico City as the smog-choked capital entered
its second week under an air-quality emergency.
Mayor Manuel Camacho Solis said the plan should force industries
to clean up or get out of Mexico City by 1994.
One of the more ambitious goals of the cleanup plan, which calls
for installation of anti-pollution devices in all factories and
modernization of aging industrial plants, is a 90 perc...
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