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...incinerators, which can pollute the air. But now refuse is being reappraised as a possible Cinderella fuel. Cheap and almost limitless, as municipalities know only too well, it consists mainly of paper, plastic and organic matter that when burned, releases about 50% of the heat value of coal...
...privately owned electric utility has just announced that it will take all of the six-county metropolitan area's solid wastes-some 8,000 tons a day-and burn them in its power plants in the ratio of one part trash to nine parts coal. By 1977 Union Electric will build several collection yards where the refuse will be transferred from private or municipal trucks to rail cars. At the power plants, recyclable materials (iron, steel, aluminum and glass) will be removed and the rest of the wastes burned. Antipollution devices will trap and treat soot and gases...
...years-a certain challenge to his celebrated agility at political tightrope walking. He also inherited Britain's worst economic crisis since World War II, including a state of emergency that had darkened the country for four months, a three-day work week and a month-old coal strike that severely impaired industrial production and a $9.1 billion balance of payments deficit, the largest in British history...
Marathon Session. There was no glib talk this time of Labor's first hundred days, but Wilson set out to make his first hundred hours count. The first item on the agenda was to get the coal miners back to work- and back to work they went. Even before he was sworn in, Wilson's new Employment Secretary, Michael Foot, summoned officials of the National Union of Mineworkers and the government's National Pay Board. In a marathon twelve-hour bargaining session, they managed to hammer out an agreement that had eluded Heath's government...
...members and publicly denying that the ACSR is thinking in specific terms at all. But Harvard will probably manage some solution. In fact, its outlines may already be emerging. If the ACSR couples its AP&L recommendation with a reminder that AP&L's plans call for the largest coal-burning plant in the country, it can say that the case isn't comparable to whatever others come its way. With enough determination, Harvard committees can do almost anything--even set a precedent without setting a precedent...