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Harvard went through an intricate three-way shuffle last week in its slow progress toward taking a stand on a controversial coal-burning plant in Arkansas...
...lifted the ban on coal burning in the metropolitan area but it is a possibility, according to Comproni. "I hope we won't see any coal burning this winter, but we are walking on a tightrope now. We'll either freeze if the restrictions aren't lifted, or see the health effects if they are," he said...
Also early next year, the Arkansas Public Service Commission will hold hearings on Arkansas Power and Light's proposed 2800-megawatt coal burning plant at North Little Rock, Ark. Environmentalists are opposing the plant because of the sulfur dioxide emissions it will produce
...blaring trumpets that hailed London's royal wedding (see story page 50) were perhaps the only happy notes sounded in Britain last week. On the eve of the wedding, the government proclaimed a state of emergency to deal with a potential energy shortage caused by the refusal of coal miners and electrical engineers to work overtime. The Department of Trade and Industry announced that in October Britain suffered a trade deficit of at least $715 million, the worst ever. To prevent a potentially ruinous run on the pound, the Bank of England hiked its lending rate to an unprecedented...
Because New England electrical power is primarily generated by oil burning, the energy crisis has forced the voltage cutback. However, several companies affiliated with NEPEX have started purchasing coal in anticipation of converting their generators to coal if federal air pollution controls are relaxed...