GEPHARDT'S PROPOSALS
Kelly, Mary E.
As the U.S. Congress prepares for hearings and debates about whether to approve NAFTA, environmental and public-health conditions in the U.S.Mexico border region are in the spotlight, In late...
...Enacta "cross-border transaction tax" Ofl movement of goods between theUnitedStatesandMexico.witheach country's revenues used to fund necessary programs in worker training, infra-stnicturedevelopment,andenvironmen-tal protection...
...Establish a binational commission along the border with the power and resources to address environmental enforcement...
...Expand (the budget of the EPA's)border and international operations...
...S -owned maquiladora)plants to follow a "code of Conduct," which addresses basic health, safety fair-wage issues...
...Require (U...
...enliffing U.S...
...community right.-to-know" statutes so that U.S...
...companies doing business in Mexico within 100 kilometers of the U.S.-Mexico border must inform the public of basic toxic-pollution emissions from their plants...
...Congress prepares for hearings and debates about whether to approve NAFTA, environmental and public-health conditions in the U.S.Mexico border region are in the spotlight, In late July...
...companies in the same industry to request protective Customs duties...
...and basic water and wasteater issues...
...corn-panies that do business in Mexico to the company for failure to abide by Mexico's environmental la'ws...
...House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt laid down what many consider to he "bottom-line" conditions for Democratic support ot' NAFTA in Congress...
...Expand U.S...
...Treat the failure ofMxico-located companies to abide by environmental regulations as an unfair trade subsidy...
...The following are among his proposals concerning the border region's environment: Allow shareholders of U.S...
Vol. 26 • September 1992 • No. 2
