Word: coal
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True, this was common sense. But fashion has always been a more urgent mistress, especially when fashion comes cheap. The 19th century ushered in an era of cheap coal delivered by train. According to Orchard Professor of History in Landscape Development John Stilgoe, this inexpensive fuel and inventions such as tar paper, which could seal out the wind, led Americans away from energy-conserving design practices...
...good deal did get accomplished and a real industry started to form, then the Reagan Administration came in and swept away all of the tax incentives for alternative energy sources. That just killed the movement. Of course, they kept all the tax breaks for the oil and coal industries, they even increased them...
While catastrophic cave-ins are relatively rare in the U.S., about 260,000 former miners suffer from another killer: black lung disease. One reason could be that mine operators routinely circumvent air-safety standards established in 1969 to regulate the amount of coal dust in the mines. Now the government is cracking down. In Virginia last week, 13 coal companies and 15 people pleaded guilty to falsifying air samples to understate levels of coal dust. The companies face fines of as much as $500,000 each. The individuals could be imprisoned for five years and fined $250,000. Prosecutors...
...weighed more heavily on the poor and middle class than on the wealthy) and has gone along with making it more regressive still. The Governor has not been able to reform significantly the state's income tax structure. He has failed to raise the severance tax on timber, coal, oil and natural gas. To raise revenue for his education and other reforms, Clinton has requested and won two increases in the sales tax, which raises 40% of the state's revenue. A particularly objectionable feature: Arkansas is one of the few states to apply sales taxes to store-bought food...
Later in the week, BGLAD organizers willpresent a film festival called "Reel Queer." Thefestival will include the Boston premieres ofmovies from the 1991 New York Gay and LesbianExperimental Film Festival as well as rarely seenfilms such as "Coal Miner's Granddaughter," shotwith a toy video camera