Pennsylvania uses lifeboat approach to Y2K, becoming model for others

Article Abstract:

Pennsylvania has worked hard to prepare for the Year 2000 software crisis. Since 1995, the state has spent 1.3 million man hours and $40 million developing a lifeboat approach' to the problem. A state official says Pennsylvania realized it was not an island and needed to take account of its interconnections with others. Pennsylvania did so in a campaign that now involves the federal government, 12 other states, Canada, and even beer distributors. The aim has been to bring everyone into the lifeboat before the computer problems begin. Gov. Tom Ridge says this is not an expression of altruism. He describes Pennsylvania as 'the high-tech heartland of America,' and he says an ability to survive Y2K will serve as a 'marketing tool,' attracting more high-tech businesses to his state.

Prepackaged software, Computer Software, Software Publishers, Government regulation, Software, Telecommunications regulations, Telecommunications systems, Year 2000 transition (Computers), Government communications regulation, Pennsylvania, State government, Year 2000 transition

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Once a pollutant, 'scrubber sludge' finds a market

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Electric utilities, which have been removing fly ash and sulfur from their emissions discharge in compliance with the 1970 Clean Air Act, have found that they can recycle these waste products and turn a healthy profit. Babb Cellular Concrete Co. is constructing a new plant for the manufacture of a special lightweight concrete composed of fly ash while Caraustar Industries Inc. is building a factory that will produce wallboard made from sulfur residue. The electric companies also are selling these recycled products to farmers, who use them to improve their soils.

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Have been recycling waste products, such as fly ash and sulfur, and turning a healthy profit

Electric Utilities, Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Company Planning/Goals, Pollutants produced & recycled

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EPA Rules Seek 28% Cut in Emissions Blamed for Smog, Rankling Some Utilities

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The EPA has developed a plan to reduce air-borne nitrogen oxide. The plan is based upon the EPA's program to reduce sulfur-dioxide emission. Power utilities would be able to sell their unused pollution certificates to companies that produced too much air pollutants. Such certificates would be issued by states. The companies hardest hit by this proposal are in the eastern midwest.The projected cost of the plan is $1.7 billion, or about $1 per average family's electric bill. Midwest power utilities are described as disappointed in the proposal.

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Midwest power utilities will be required to reduce nitrogen oxide production

Government regulation (cont), Utilities, Industrial Gas Manufacturing, Legal/Government Regulation, Electric & Gas Utilities, Nitrogen Oxide Gases, Gas utilities, Nitrogen oxides

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