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Ohio has a problem with sulfur dioxide air pollution, and the EPA has ordered its utilities to meet strict limits on smokestack emissions. But to burn Ohio's high-sulfur coal, say the companies, would necessitate installing expensive scrubbing devices. They rebelled at the cost; one utility reckoned that compliance with the EPA order could cause a 24% rise in electric rates. Instead, the companies said, they would import low-sulfur coal from Western or Appalachian states. That in turn riled the miners, who argue that if the utilities buy out-of-state coal, demand for Ohio coal will...
...polluter and assume the cost for it to clean up its emissions even more than Sohio's oil will foul the air. The oil company has accepted the trade-off and is talking with Southern California Edison about spending some $100 million to buy the latest in expensive smokestack air scrubbers for the utility...
...below Kennecott's average cost. Some analysts, however, believe that copper might go as high as $1 per lb. by the end of 1979, as demand catches up with supply. But, if the stock market is any indicator, the prospects for Kennecott, as with most "smokestack" companies, are dim. Its stock sold for about $25 a share last week, far below the book value...
...pollution in those areas. By contrast, the Senate has voted not only to retain EPA'S authority, but to add a Carter Administration provision that is making industry fume: a so-called best available technology clause, which requires polluters to install such expensive pollution-control devices as smokestack "scrubbers...
...panel will go into action any time the agency receives ten complaints about a particular odor within 90 days. If the apparent polluter happens to be an industrial concern, for example, investigators will go to the olfactory−as it were−and collect air directly from the smokestack. Each of the three panelists will then be asked to sniff 20 samples−ten from the smokestack and ten consisting of fresh air. If two of the three noses correctly identify eight of both the smoke and fresh air samples−in other words, if the odor is really noticeable...