Mixed Reaction to New Plan to Cut Smog.

GREEN groups were full of praise on Thursday for the Environmental Protection Agency after it proposed the strictest standards to date for smog. Although auto tailpipes have historically been a major source of smog, the auto industry said that it had largely dealt with that issue. Ground-level ozone reductions, the carmakers said, were more likely to come from stationary sources like power plants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]