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Ford proposed a wide range of other programs to reduce energy consumption or increase supplies. Among them: opening to commercial drilling the Navy's Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in Alaska; amending the Clean Air Act and other legislation to enable utilities to burn more coal; enacting heat-saving standards for all new buildings; budgeting more federal money for energy research and development. He set a list of specific goals to be achieved by 1985: production of 1 million bbl. per day of synthetic fuels and shale oil; construction of 150 "major" coal-fired power plants, 30 new refineries...
...easing of restrictions on utilities' coal burning will be sought?another modification of the Clean Air Act. The White House wants to postpone installation of scrubbers?smoke-filtering devices?on stacks. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality have accepted a delay in the scrubber deadlines, set unrealistically...
...witty, acerbic one on the press and a general political one called Surplus Value. Surplus Value gets more conspiracy-oriented every week; this week it speculates about a possible CIA-led coup in Venezuela, designed to protect Rockefeller oil holdings there against nationalization, and about a big-business coal pipeline that will pollute the West and put Appalachian miners out of work...
Inside the Bass house, Ford was preparing to veto some ecological legislation already passed by Congress. The strip mining bill he refused to sign called for regulating all strip mining and a 35-cent-per-ton excise tax on all surface-underground coal to pay for reclamation. Oddly enough, the measure would have cost Bass an estimated $100,000 annually because of his many mining leases...
Ford refused to sign the bill after arguing that it would have hampered domestic coal production "when the nation can ill afford significant losses from this critical energy source." Though his veto was anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future...