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Though environmentalists are understandably loath to say so, the cost of satisfying their demands would be unrealistically high. The Pennsylvania coal mining town of Ramey learned that lesson not long ago, when it received a stern order from the commonwealth's department of environmental resources: Stop untreated waste from flowing into nearby Little Muddy Creek and begin building a new $1.3 million sewer system. Only 80 of Ramey's 500 residents have regular jobs; the rest get by on Social Security, welfare, unemployment insurance, and other forms of Government aid. Last year the assessed valuation...
...afford anything, to be honest," protests the town's mayor, John McQuown. "I just couldn't pay," echoes one Ramey resident. Yet Pennsylvania court rulings in similar cases have held that financial hardship is not a valid excuse for polluting the waters of the commonwealth. Is the town doomed then? Not necessarily. "If Ramey can't get a bond issue underwritten, the state can do what it wants, but it is not going to get a sewer system in there," says Thomas M. Burke, a lawyer for the department of environmental resources. "We're just...
...just not acceptable that a director of a major commonwealth enterprise should be on pillow-talk terms with the head of government," sniffed the Melbourne Herald, Australia's largest evening paper. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, 57, had not been caught in flagrante delicto; rather his wife Margaret, 54, was being heckled about her latest job. A trained social worker, Margaret Whitlam is a director of the Commonwealth Hostels Ltd., an organization that administers government housing. "Drop it, Meg," was the Herald's blunt advice. But Mrs. Whitlam, whose liberal views on abortion, sex and marijuana have shocked Australians...
Arrival back in the Commonwealth failed to work wonders, either. UMass romped over the Terriers Friday night at B.U.'s Case Center...
...some other power companies are less than exemplary. Chicago's Commonwealth Edison has adopted a "We trust them" attitude toward industrial customers, which account for about two-thirds of its sales, while distributing 140,000 booklets called 101 Ways to Conserve Electricity at Home...