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...developing new energy sources, including the immediate leasing of federally owned lands for shale-oil production. Senator Henry Jackson's bill, calling for expenditures of $20 billion over 10 years for a research and development program to explore the potential of such untapped sources as coal gasification and liquefaction, could be an important step forward in ensuring that the nation's future energy supplies are adequate...
...schedule, or if offshore oil reserves were tapped in time, the nation would not face a serious oil shortage. If automakers did not have to install antipollution equipment, cars would get much better mileage per gallon. If electric utilities were not limited to burning the scarcest of fuels-coal and oil with low sulfur content or natural gas-there would be less chance that the cities will go cold this winter. The root trouble in each of these cases is one environmental law or another, and it therefore follows that the repeal or modification of those laws could alleviate...
...Government and environmental leaders are striving for rational compromises to meet the crisis. Last week, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency staunchly defended air-quality standards set in the Clean Air Act. "We're going to be under continuing pressure to allow the use of dirtier fuel, especially coal," says EPA Administrator Russell Train. "But we're going to put much greater pressure on electric utilities to install pollution-abatement equipment, so that they will eventually meet our standards anyway." Confirming that policy, the Senate passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act last week that will require...
...House Interior Subcommittee acted to make sure that getting the coal does not cause lasting damage. It approved an even tougher bill to regulate strip mining than the one the Senate passed last month (TIME, Oct. 22). If it passes the full House, the bill will require surface miners not only to restore stripped land to its original contours, but also to pay a $2.50-per-ton fee to a fund set up to reclaim the land they ravaged in the process of digging...
...letter to the officers of the Protect Our Land Association, an Arkansas citizen's group opposed to the proposed coal-fuel power plant which it say will pollute the air and hurt farmers' crops, Hugh Calkins '45, the subcommittee's chairman, said the subcommittee will carefully consider any ACSR recommendation...