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Harvard could become a significant force in court battle which has dragged on for more than a decade between the Federal Power Commission and Consolidated Edison on one hand, and several environmentally concerned groups and the City of New York on the other...
...most recent decision, handed down late last year by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, decided in Favor of the Federal Power Commission and Consolidated Edison. The petitioners--Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the City of New York, the Sierra Club and its Atlantic Chapter. Wilderness Society, the Izaak Walton League of America, National Audubon Society and the National Parks and Conservation Association--are seeking review of the case by the U.S. Supreme Court...
Ghosts and Rats. The military's detritus is not confined to the frozen north. Camp Kilmer, near Edison, N.J., is a decaying ghost town of fire-gutted barracks and shattered glass. Unfenced, it is a tempting playground for exploring children. While squirrels and kangaroo rats nest in the bomb craters that pock 10,000 acres of California's Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the area is off limits to human visitors because it contains unexploded bombs and rockets left there 30 years ago, when the Navy used the park as a test-firing range. Although much...
...York's Consolidated Edison Co., the nation's largest investor-owned electric utility, has another problem. Its new Indian Point No. 2 nuclear power plant on the Hudson River 35 miles upstream from New York City is almost ready to ease the metropolitan area's growing power shortage. The company has urged the AEC to allow the nuke to begin operating almost immediately, adding that it will later install whatever new environmental safeguards might be required...
Guinea Pig. It was emphatically the wrong time for Kemmler, too. Dr. Alphonse David Rockwell was then advancing the notion that electrocution would be a humane method for executing criminals. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were noisily disputing the relative merits of direct and alternating current. Kemmler was a convenient guinea pig, and so became the first man ever to be executed by that new scientific wonder, electricity. Calling his hero-victim Rupert Weber to suit his fictional purposes, Davis takes the reader through the last months of Weber's life-his moods and his memories, fears and dreams...