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...Federal Power Commission is now reconsidering Consolidated Edison Company's eight-year-old request to take over 240 acres of a Harvard experimental forest in New York State for a hydro-electric project-and local conservation groups fear the plan is closer than ever to approval...
...Chicago, Commonwealth Edison's annual meeting turned into a debate over pollution. The Rev. Leonard Dubi, a Catholic priest, led a band of 70 proxy-holding protesters and peremptorily gave directors one hour to answer their demands. They called for a halt in the construction of a nuclear power station to avoid thermal pollution of Lake Michigan, and for faster action to reduce the sulfur content of coal that the utility burns. Dubi and his followers then left the hall, thus missing a report by Commonwealth Edison President Thomas G. Ayers outlining plans to cut sulfur emissions around Chicago...
...harassers at Honeywell and Commonwealth Edison also picked up tactical tips from Chicago's Saul Alinsky, the foundation-subsidized professional radical who regards conflict as a useful cathartic for social ills (TIME, March 2). "In all of my battles," says Alinsky, "I have never seen the other side so uptight as they have been on this...
...good-but courts generally refuse to hear litigants who have no "standing," meaning a personal stake in the outcome. Sive's clients seemingly lacked that requisite. Even so, he had the answer: his own victory in the 1965 court decision to stop construction of a big Consolidated Edison plant at Storm King Mountain near the Hudson. In that pioneering case, conservationists won the right to represent the public as "aggrieved parties" to protect the environment...
...worst areas are the Albany Pool, the section below Troy and Rensselaer, and the approaches to New York harbor-but industrialization has already begun to zero in on the relatively clean areas between. Consolidated Edison appears as one of Boyle's main targets. Despite some effort by the company to modify its plans in the face of public pressure, Boyle regards the controversial projected Con Ed installation at Storm King as a threat with an ultimate effect on wildlife that cannot be measured but will surely be dangerous...