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By PATRICK GRAHAM
Rappahannock N*wa Special Writer
RICHMOND-About 15 months ago, Gov. L. Douglas Wilder unveiled what environmentalists called a corAprehensive and visionary plan to clesm the air of Northern Virginia.
But now after a year of intense lobbying from the oil and automobile industries, Wilder has abandoned a key part of his clean air plan; requiring that Northern Virginia dealerships sell low-polluting vehicles.
Secretary of Natural Resources Elizabeth H. Haskell said Monday that political opposition in the General Assembly to the sale of lowemission vehicles (LEV) is too strong this year for the Wilder Administration overcome.
‘We don’t have the support for it,4 said Haskell to gathering of the Northern Virginia delegation. ‘We are very realistic about the package we are sending you.4
Wilder’s decision to back off the LEV program came on the heels of federal court ruling in New York on Jan. 22 in which overturned a New York law that-like the LEV program-would have required the sale of the so-called ‘California car.4
Also, the death of the LEV program for now seemed inevitable since Wilder last year failed to push through the program and a legislative study commission voted overwhelmingly against the idea last month.
Mobil Oil of Fairfax also has been successful in blocking the idea, saying Virginia could not pick and chose among parts of California’s anti
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