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...case involves Spruce Tissue Mills, a New York manufacturer of toilet tissue. Last spring the company announced that it would build a plant employing 100 workers in Bennington County, an area of chronic rural poverty where the unemployment rate stands at 7% and is rising...
Delighted by the prospect of new jobs for Vermonters, the state made every effort to accommodate Spruce Tissue, including a 35-acre site on the banks of the Hoosic River and a loan of $7.2 million. Everything was set-except the final approval of the Bennington district environmental commission...
...commissioners-a farmer, a contractor and a forester-took their responsibilities seriously. While approving the plant, they put ten severe restrictions on its wastes. Result: Spruce Tissue resented being told precisely what kind of low-sulfur fuel oil to use, and said it could not comply with water-pollution regulations that sounded as though the company would have to clean up the entire Hoosic River...
...action, thus vitiating the new law. When the company hired local lawyers to present its case, they turned out to be some of the very men who had drafted the environmental laws in the first place. Now the state board has revoked most of the restrictions, and Spruce Tissue will start building its mill next spring...
Legal Loopholes. "Everybody learned from the Spruce Tissue case," says Robert S. Babcock Jr., a member of the state board. One lesson: the need for sensible national antipollution standards to keep states from lowering their own standards when competing for industry. Another: many of Vermont's new laws, while too vague in some respects, are also too weak. Air-pollution offenses are measured visually against a fume-color chart that hardly applies to nighttime emissions. The laws controlling water pollution fail to set precise standards of water quality and thus cannot be enforced...