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Northwestern University has been awarded grants totaling more than $20 million from a foundation established by former Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, university President Arnold R. Weber said Tuesday. Weber said the grants from the St. Davids, Pa.-based Annenberg Foundation include more than $15 million in support of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communication Policy Studies of Northwestern University, based in Washington, D.C.

Northwestern University has been awarded grants totaling more than $20 million from a foundation established by former Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, university President Arnold R. Weber said Tuesday. Weber said the grants from the St. Davids, Pa.-based Annenberg Foundation include more than $15 million in support of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communication Policy Studies of Northwestern University, based in Washington, D.C.

During the highly contentious debate over the Clean Air Act of 1990, the Bush Administration and Congress unexpectedly agreed to water down one of the bill's anti-pollution provisions by allowing the use of "reformulated gasoline" in place of cleaner-burning alternative fuels. A key proponent--and beneficiary--of the change was Atlantic Richfield Co., the Los Angeles-based oil giant that developed reformulated gas.