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...When coal miners in Siberia's Kuzbass region walked off the job in early March, they vowed not to return until Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned. Last week, with Gorbachev still in office, the miners ended their strike, but only after he ceded Kremlin control of the coalpits to the Russian republic...
...Yeltsin's victory could backfire. By winning control over Russia's coal mines, Yeltsin inherits an industry steeped in debt and badly in need of modernization. And the miners voted to suspend their strike for only two months, lest Yeltsin prove no better than Gorbachev at settling grievances...
...Cities study showed that there were noticeable health effects, such as a substantial increase in respiratory illness in "dirty" cities, that resulted from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels. This process releases sulfur dioxide and other acidic chemicals into the air, said both professors...
...when it was felt that there would be a major change in the way electricity was generated," he said. This change was anticipated after OPEC launched an oil, embargo. The shortage of oil, many thought, would force U.S. power plants to switch to the use of coal for electricity generation...
...even hundreds of millenniums, and are piling up fast. High-level waste -- that which is most radioactive -- from U.S. power plants is not voluminous. More than 30 years' worth totals 17,000 tons, a thimbleful compared with the slag that would result from generating equivalent power by burning coal. Yet this waste threatens to fill all available storage space at generating facilities, and the U.S. has made little headway in developing a safe final resting place for more...