Word: coal
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...power he had requested to impose economic changes by decree, and he promptly issued an order to all government institutions and local authorities to stop hoarding goods and fulfill contracts for delivery. The order, however, looks unenforceable. Meanwhile, new problems keep piling up: a threat of another coal miners' strike and a declaration of economic sovereignty by the Far Eastern region of Yakutia, a part of the Russian Republic. No wonder rumormongering is so popular. Gossipy speculation can be a welcome relief from grim reality...
...next decade, especially in areas of heavy pollution. "Natural gas has the lowest carbon dioxide emissions of any of the fossil fuels," notes James MacKenzie, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute, an environmental group. More natural gas could be used for electrical generation, mainly to replace coal. "Power plants can switch fuels and cut their emissions of sulfur instantly with relatively inexpensive changes in equipment," says MacKenzie. The most untapped market is transportation. More than 30,000 cars and trucks in the U.S. run on natural gas, and automakers have shown increasing interest in the technology. Last week...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Many a summer theater tries Shakespeare's comic delight, but perhaps only the Open Door Theater, a troupe that moves from town to town trying to reacquaint the heartland with the live stage, has set it in a coal mine -- Pioneer Tunnel in Ashland, Pa., this week only...
...used the past 10 years to develop an effective policy that reduced its thirst for foreign crude. It has not done so for two major reasons. First, concerns about protecting the environment have hampered the development of domestic alternative energy sources such as offshore oil and coal. Second and more important, any effort to wean the U.S. from foreign energy sources would require forcing consumers to pay a higher price for gasoline and other fuels. In the early 1980s, when the price of crude rose to more than $40 per bbl., imports fell by half. But as prices slumped...
...possibility for the Ukraine to enter voluntarily into a new union of Soviet republics, it goes further than a similar document passed last month in neighboring Russia. Thus the U.S.S.R.'s second largest republic, with a population of 52 million and some of the most fertile farmland, richest coal fields and largest industrial centers in the Soviet Union, has joined seven of the country's 14 other republics in formally loosening ties with the central government...