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...would like Santa to know that this year I would appreciate a stocking full of coal...
...Reduction of environmental standards, which are even now abysmally low. is a betrayal of the future for the sake of a luxurious present. Our hope does not lie in more oil. more coal, or more nuclear power plants, any more than our transportation crisis calls for bigger freeways. These are the solutions of shortsighted men. and the pollution resulting from these solutions will be disastrous. Unlimited energy will not help us if we cannot breathe the air or drink the water...
...exports to the U.S. So far, energy experts note, none of these dire fears have actually come true. In addition, gasless Sundays and other conservation measures outlined by the President two weeks ago could cut deeply into fuel consumption. These measures, coupled with an encouraging shift from oil to coal by several utility companies, lead some Federal officials to feel that the shortfall could be cut to 2.6 million bbl. a day-enough, in his words, to make the difference between rationing and no rationing...
Thirty-five Kansas farmers, calling themselves the Concerned Citizens United, Inc. (CCU), are attempting to prevent the Kansas Power and Light Co. from constructing a 2800 megawatt coal-burning power plant near St. Mary's, Kansas...
...July request from the Army Corps of Engineers that it apply for a permit to pump water from the Kansas River to their plant five miles away; the Environmental Protection Agency and the Bureau of Mines have questioned KP&L's estimate of the sulfur content of the coal for the plant; and, KP&L's own estimate that the plant will burn 1600 tons of coal per hour, take and never return over one-third of the volume of water in the Kansas River, and dump 60,000 tons of sulfur dioxide into...