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...often begins with wheezing and shortness of breath. Eventually it can lead to death. Byssinosis (nicknamed "brown lung" disease) is caused primarily by cotton dust that fills the air in textile plants. As many as 150,000 employed and retired cotton-mill workers may suffer from some form of the ailment. In the cotton-mill country of the South, a sardonic slogan addressed to consumers is "Blue jeans for you, brown lung...
Three years ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) imposed stringent limits on the amount of cotton dust that manufacturers could have in their plants. The industry objected that the ventilation equipment and other measures required by OSHA's order would run up a crippling tab of $2 billion (OSHA's estimate: $650 million). Turning to the courts in an attempt to get the standards modified, the industry argued that OSHA should have weighed the cost of compliance against the benefits...
...Court this year, the textile manufacturers acquired a potent ally in President Reagan. In February, as part of his drive to deregulate U.S. industry, Reagan ordered a cost-benefit analysis of major Government rules. A month later his Secretary of Labor asked the Supreme Court not to decide the cotton-dust case because OSHA planned to reconsider the disputed standards...
...decision was a four-word phrase that Congress used in the 1970 law that OSHA administers. The measure directed the agency to set standards assuring that "to the extent feasible," no worker would suffer material impairment of health from exposure to toxic substances, including cotton dust. By and large, OSHA read the word feasible to mean technologically possible, but the industry argued for a primarily economic definition. Wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority: "Congress itself defined the basic relationship between costs and benefits, by placing the 'benefit' of worker health above all other considerations save those making...
...school year. With indirect federal subsidies suddenly imperiled, the town cannot decide whether to spend less in the future or tax itself more. "We must face economic realities," intones Budget Basher John Lupton, a silver-haired onetime advertising executive remotely related to Puritan Spoilsport Cotton Mather. But Lupton is having trouble convincing his neighbors that his newly formed antiwaste group, COST (Coalition Opposing Soaring Taxes) is not antieducation...