Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Does not support easing environmental restrictions to allow burning of higher sulfur coal...
...five years in "the club" has become one of the Senate's leading energy experts. He strongly favors the development of alternative energy sources, and sees big oil companies as a threat to the country's future. As to the controversial nuclear plant at Seabrook, Durkin favors coal conversion--to a refined brand of coal that meets Environmental Protection Agency standards. He has not shied from maverick stands, and is on the progressive cutting edge on many issues. His campaign handout says, "John Durkin is tough--he's blunt...
...share several other traits, too. Both were wunderkind; Dixon was elected to the state legislature in his early 20s, and O'Neal began his politicking by winning the race for sheriff in a heavily Democratic county. Both favor free markets for farm produce and more mining of soft Illinois coal. Both call American foreign policy "indecisive...
...angered when I hear that DEQE is concerned that its decision not prejudice a future coal conversion plan. In this case a negative MATEP decision becoming a constraining precedent is the issue. What angers me about this is that I recall being told that my concerns with the impact of MATEP on the future economic development of Boston--surely, an analogous issue--was irrelevant and constituted an intrusion of concerns extraneous to the mandate of DEQE...
...George F. Baer achieved American duncehood during the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1902, when a resident of Wilkes-Barre wrote to him, as chief spokesman for the mine owners, to express anxiety at the ravages of the strike. Baer decided to explain himself. In a letter that was later widely circulated, especially among the United Mine Workers, he reassured his correspondent that some people were placed on earth to manage and others to serve, and that was the divine order of things. Said Baer: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared...