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...minor offenders, including several suburban garbage dumps. He is also interpreting the law in new ways. He insists, for example, that "the type of service a public monopoly renders the public is a factor in determining its rates." On this ground, he is trying to block Chicago Commonwealth Edison's request for a rate increase; the utility's power plants still burn coal with such high sulphur content that the company admits they cause 11% of the city's air-pollution problems...
Commonwealth Edison officials also say that conversion to low-sulphur coal would increase the company's fuel costs by 50%-which the consumer would eventually have to pay for in higher rates. Scott feels that the social costs of pollution outweigh purely financial considerations. Impatient with "conferences, delays and extensions of deadlines," he aims to curb pollution by the previously neglected tactic of enforcing the laws now on the books. "No one has to live in an atmospheric sewer," says Scott, "and it's not going to happen here...
Rusty left Miami for two years at Georgia Military Academy, but returned to graduate from Miami's Edison High School. His best subjects were government and English history. Rusty was on the debating team, and he was popular enough with his classmates to be elected .to the prestigious Mike and Mask Club. He dated regularly, dressed well, drank beer with his buddies and kept things moving in any group. "He'd come up with things quickly at the right time to make people laugh," says Rick Smith, an Edison classmate. There was a deeper side. Another high school friend, Chuck...
...sort of an all-American boy, a real nice guy. The only hang-up he had was the same one everybody there had, to stay out of the line of fire until you could get home." Says William Thomas, who was dean of boys when Rusty was attending Edison High School: "He was just an average American...
...November 25, members of the group picketed and testified at pollution hearings at the State House and later awarded "The First Blue Ribbon Pollutor Award" to the Boston Edison Company. The organization is planning a number of actions for spring...