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Joggers in Point Defiance Park near Asarco Inc.'s mammoth copper-smelting plant sometimes complain that they can taste the air on windless days. With 575 workers, the 80-acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between...
Ruckelshaus called on Tacoma to hold public meetings on the issue next month, with EPA officials participating. Said he: "People need to hear more of what the administrator of this agency hears from the scientists: mainly, that we have a lot of gaps in our knowledge. Most people think the facts are clear, but it is often true that there is enormous dispute over what the facts are. And we just can't sit there and let nature take its course...
Despite all this action, some environmentalists found the Watt endorsement and Ruckelshaus' ties to industry disturbing. Since 1976 he has been a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co., the huge Tacoma, Wash., forest-products firm that was named one of the nation's "Filthy Five" companies by Environmental Action, an environmental lobbying group. But others praised the nomination, giving Ruckelshaus high marks for his stewardship of the fledgling EPA from 1970 to 1973, when he fought consistently with the major automakers over air-pollution controls, banned a number of controversial herbicides and forced steelmakers and electric utilities...
Though nobody is willing to pronounce the experiment a runaway success, the initial returns have been so bullish that Sears will open seven more financial branches this week in cities from Tacoma, Wash., to Tallahassee, Fla., and 18 more in May. The encouraging results added a glow to Sears' announcement last week that its overall profits rose 33% in 1982, to $861.2 million, on revenues of $30 billion...
...bought him out in 1976 for 450,000 shares of Grace stock, worth about $17.5 million at current prices. At Grace, Cano is president of El Torito-La Fiesta Restaurants (1981 sales: $150 million); he has expanded the division into a 90-unit operation with restaurants strung from Tacoma, Wash., to Tampa. Up to 15 will be added next year...