Word: sulphureous
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Boston Edison wants a rate increase in the event that the Department of Public Health requires full-time use of less polluting one per cent sulphurfuel. Present fuel is 2.3 per cent sulphur and considerably cheaper...
...Boston Industrial Mission, another anti-pollution group testifying at the hearing, suggested a variable rate structure. "We propose that a discount be given to domestic users who consume little power and rate increases be graduated so steeply that big users would pay the incremental cost for low sulphur fuels and other pollution control measures," the group said yesterday...
...eighth-floor hotel room; in Dallas. Seagraves spent his life putting together deals, borrowing millions to make millions, then trading it all to cover overborrowing on other deals. By 1929 he had made and lost $20 million in natural gas speculation, subsequently ran up fortunes in oil and sulphur. But in the end he lost it all (an estimated $150 million), and died virtually broke...
Although more than 100 foreign firms have signed investment contracts since the beginning of 1967-including such U.S. firms as Alcoa, Freeport Sulphur, Goodyear Rubber and ITT-others have been frightened...
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...