EPA adopts trade-off policy permitting new pollution
The EPA unveiled a controversial plan allowing new pollution sources in areas not yet meeting federal air standards if equivalent reductions are achieved elsewhere in the region. Deputy administrator John R. Quarles Jr. framed it as a compromise, while critics from the National Clean Air Coalition argued it undercuts the Clean Air Act of 1970.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaheim
Calif
Environmental Protection Agency
New York City
New Jersey
John R. Quarles Jr
National Clean Air Coalition
Washington
League of Women Voters
American Lung Association
Sierra Club
Friends of the Earth
EPA
Quarles
Anaheim Convention Center
77-Foot Escape Tunnel Found at San Quentin Prison
Three inmates working in a 77 foot long tunnel beneath San Quentin surrendered after guards opened a locked steel door with a hacksaw. The tunnel ran roughly 55 feet from shore, averaged 2 1/3 to 4 feet square, and yielded shovels hoes lock picks lights an intercom and a drainage pump. Norman Lucas Lawrence Saffeels and Richard Lee were identified as the escapees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Calif
UPI
Jerry Copus
Copus
Lucas
Norman Lucas
Lawrence Saffeels
Richard Lee
Alameda County
San Francisco
Steve Lawrence
Lawrence
San Francisco Bay
Mastermind Lucas Creates Near-Finish San Quentin Escape
Norman Lucas, a 26 year old inmate serving a life sentence, masterminded a 67 foot tunnel under San Quentin’s cell blocks nearly to completion. He has made multiple escape attempts, with two resulting in deaths, including a December 1969 Hall of Justice escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Calif
UPI
Norman Lucas
San Quentin Prison
State Department of Corrections
Lucas
San Francisco
Also Mentioned on This Page
N.Y. Times News Service
Bay
Mitchum
Wrangler
Nat
Miss M
Leather
P.V.C
Laguna
Leks
Bennington