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Land Leasing. Under Watt the federal acreage leased for oil exploration has more than doubled; land leased to coal companies has quintupled. Conservationists worry, for example, about the lease hastily granted last fall for drilling beneath New Mexico's Capitan Wilderness. Critics also say it is unwise to auction coal properties during a market glut...
...bountiful, but not bottomless well soon may be tapped. Texans are talking of pumping water from the Mississippi River, which draws much of its volume out of the states in the Great Lakes watershed. Coal mining interests in Montana have approached Wisconsin for access to Lake Superior. They want to pipe water to the Montana coalfields, where it would be mixed with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre...
BORN. To Sissy Spacek, 32, Oscar-winning actress (Coal Miner's Daughter), and Jack Fisk, 36, Spacek's husband, who directed her in Raggedy Man; their first child, a girl; in Los Angeles. Name: Schuyler Elizabeth...
...chipping at the state and local levels to mitigate the hoped-for economic stimulus from the tax cut. This is especially true in the industrial states of the Midwest, where local governments are particularly hard pressed for revenue. Their once sturdy tax bases, proudly rooted in steel, autos, coal and muscle, have been eroded by the migration of people and companies to the Sunbelt, and by competition from more cost-efficient manufacturing operations in Japan and Europe. Most of them are simply running out of new sources of revenue and have to keep putting higher and higher taxes...
...There is coal money in Beckley now, but it's "inequitably distributed...The people who are poor are poor." Klingensmith says. "It's all government-funded poverty, and it comes largely from just shiftlessness. At least the poor in New England keep their property tidy: they don't in West Virginia. There's garbage strewn all over." And the people who are rich, mainly mine operators and speculators, "do not wear their money well." One summer Klingensmith worked on a construction crew building big private homes. Minutes after the plumbing was installed in one, the rumor spread that the toilet...