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...BLACK, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple. This time, Interior Secretary James G. Watt hit the jackpot. This tasteless description of the composition of a newly appointed coal-lease commission brought Watt closer to being ousted from the White House than ever before...
...ACCORDANCE with this pro-industry stance. Watt most recently tried to lease more land for coal strip-mining. In 1981, he opened up 400,000 new acres of national parks to drilling and mining. (Although energy leasing had been done in the Carter Administration, 'hard rock' mining of minerals causes considerably more damage to the land.) In 1982, Watt presented Congress with a plan that would open virtually the entire nation's coastline to drilling...
...Interior Secretary James Watt has been trying to sell frights to mine on federally controlled land. Environmentalists and some Western Governors and Democrats contend he will spur the mining of coal that the nation does not now need, at giveaway prices. On Aug. 3, a House committee voted to order Watt not to hold a sale of mining rights scheduled for last week. Under federal law, its vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option...
...issue should be settled by the federal courts. Meanwhile, the Interior Secretary's determination to plunge ahead with the coal-lease sales program is raising a political storm; in the West, the disposition of the enormous amounts of coal that lie under federal land is an emotional issue. Ironically, though, when Watt last week put up for sale the rights to mine land containing 543 million tons of coal, primarily in North Dakota, he received bids covering only 115 million tons...
...China's future. Chinese have synthesized insulin, flung satellites into space, made nuclear bombs ? yet do not supply their villages with adequate common matches. Baoshan, the huge new steel complex near Shanghai, is a state-of-the-art operation. But steel production requires heavy cargo of both coking coal and ore, and the river creek on which the Baoshan plant was built could not take heavy-laden ships. So iron ore must be shipped to the Philippines and then transshipped in small boats to Baoshan...