Word: oregon
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...states of Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and Washington, there were initiatives to put tight restrictions on the building of new nuclear-power plants. In a stunning defeat for the persistent foes of nuclear power, the initiatives lost across the board. All of the proposals contained the same two key provisions: 1) that utilities accept unlimited liability in the event of nuclear disaster, waiving the federally imposed limit of $560 million for any one accident, and 2) that state legislatures certify-usually by two-thirds majorities, which are difficult to get-that each proposed plant meet stringent safety requirements...
...caution failed to thwart competitiveness. When Sheehan learned that CBS had awarded Pennsylvania to Carter, he phoned an ABC analyst and said, "CBS just called Pennsylvania and it looks good." CBS's early boldness eventually backfired; the network had to retract a projection of a Carter win in Oregon. Said NBC Executive Producer Gordon Manning: "The name of the game is still to call the winners...
...Oregon officials insist that the state's three-year-old ban on no deposit-no return containers has significantly thwarted litter bugs, and a similar law in Vermont reduced can and bottle litter on the highways by 76% during the first year it was in effect, cutting cleanup costs...
NUCLEAR SAFETY. By far the most important of the environmental issues to be decided at the polls are proposals to impose strict restrictions on the construction of nuclear power plants in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and Washington. Aware that the defeat of California's nuclear proposition last June may have been caused by fears that existing nuclear plants might have to be shut down, thus causing unemployment and economic loss, environmentalists are concentrating on future nuclear-plant construction. In general their proposals would remove the $560 million federal limit that now exists on the total amount of damages...
Antinuclear forces-aided by $75,000 in contributions from Folk Singer John Denver-have waged effective campaigns that may carry the antiplant proposals in Oregon and Colorado. But they have been more heavily outs pent -by a ratio of 7 to 1 in Washington, for example-by utilities and other pro-plant forces, which fear that passage of the proposals will effectively halt any future construction of nuclear power facilities...