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...Congress for years. Despite reams of study on its polluting effects, President Reagan opposes new federal regulations, saying that more study is needed. In the Ohio River Valley, where much of the pollution originates before prevailing winds carry it eastward, industry views controls as prohibitively expensive. The high-sulfur coal-mining companies there are worried that restrictions will prompt a switch to low-sulfur coals produced...
...York, whose glorious Adirondack lakes are thought to be among the prime victims of acid rain, last week became the first state to pass a law to reduce acid rain. Governor Mario Cuomo signed a bill ordering industries that burn coal in the state to cut sulfur dioxide emissions 30% by 1991. The Business Council of New York State opposed the law, claiming it would raise rate payers' electric bills while not solving the acid-rain problem. The dilemma is that the pollution knows no boundaries. Indeed, environmentalists say that New York produces less than a third...
...been touched by the finger of God, Actor Hume Cronyn observed, and there was in fact something miraculous in his becoming an actor at all. His father, Richard Jenkins, was a coal miner in the Welsh steel town of Pontrhydyfen; Burton was the twelfth of 13 children, and his mother died when he was two. An ambition to be not only an actor but a superb actor was somehow ignited, and when he was in his teens he attached himself to Philip Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then...
Spawned in the mid-18th century, the first Industrial Revolution was fueled by the steam power and coal of Britain. The second, around 1900, got its push from chemical and electrical developments in Germany. Now there is a third industrial revolution under way, propelled by microchips. This time, however, the driving force is in the U.S. and Japan, and Western Europe is being left far behind...
...nation's maritime exports, worth an estimated $2.5 billion a week. There was also a political cost: the strike by longshoremen, called dockers by the British, came to symbolize a summer of discontent for the 58-year-old Prime Minister. Faced with an often violent, five-month-old coal miners' strike, economic setbacks and a series of political pratfalls, Thatcher seems surrounded by trouble. The latest Gallup poll, released last week, shows public support for the government at its lowest level since March 1982, before the Falklands war began: 37.5% favor Thatcher's Conservative Party, compared with...