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...seems likely to stay that way. For nearly 14 years a consortium of Western power companies has been seeking-over objections by environmentalists-to build a huge coal-fired plant on the plateau. Last week its campaign failed when two of the firms-Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric-informed Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe that they were dropping, for the time being, their plans to build the plant...
While much of Bubbling Brown Sug ar is saturated with nostalgia, one girl in it, Vivian Reed, has the fresh, flaming force of a new comet entering the earth's orbit. Her movement is sinuous, her presence is magnetic, her voice is torchy. Sans Con Edison, she could light up a Broadway marquee...
...Gregory Minor, 38, and Richard Hubbard, 38, announced that they would instead work full time for Project Survival, the organization coordinating the anti-nuclear referendum drive in California. Another engineer, Robert Pollard, 36, quit his job with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in protest over conditions at Consolidated Edison's Indian Point nuclear power plants in Buchanan...
...last week. Robert Pollard, a safety engineer with the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, resigned from his post, protesting that poorly designed safeguards at the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Buchanan, N.Y., made them "an accident waiting to happen." He was immediately challenged by Charles Luce, chairman of Consolidated Edison, which built the plants. Backed by company and some Government scientists, Luce pointed out that the plant had been operating for twelve years without harming the public. A catastrophic accident at Indian Point, he said, was as remote as the possibility of a meteor striking a large city...
Robert W. Meserve, Harvard's attorney for legal affairs concerning the power plant, represented the University in court Thursday. The next day he said, "It is perfectly clear that Edison is trying to maintain its business position and prevent Harvard from going forward in a particular way to replace Edison's facilities...