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...increasing concern over landfills and the search for alternative energy sources to coal-fired and nuclear energy have stimulated efforts to convert cities' garbage into heat, hot water, combustible material, and electricity. Many established corporations, such as Combustion Engineering and Union Carbide, have entered the garbage recycling industry. The giant General Electric Corporation supplies half the power for its turbine plant in Lynn. Mass. with steam from a $50-million garbage-converstion plant north of Boston, facility, built by the Wheelabrator-Frye Company at the suggestion of General Electric, generates steam from the 11 communities and three Boston districts that...
...short months the thick-skinned man who manages 550 million acres of public land has stunned environmentalists and lawmakers with the way he has decisively altered policymaking at Interior. Watt has accelerated the sale of oil and gas leases, moved to expedite the surface mining of coal, opened up wilderness areas to allow exploration of strategic minerals, halted the acquisition of more lands for national parks. He says he wants a bold, sensible program that will renew the country's growth. Says one of Watt's top aides, Stan Hulett: "Nobody could have survived making these proposals...
...coal strike looms...
...time of give and take. But the only thing I have seen from [the industry's] negotiators is take, take, take." United Mine Workers President Sam Church Jr. uttered that ringing denunciation after talks broke down in Washington last week between his union and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association for a new three-year contract. A strike by 160,000 U.M.W. members is considered almost certain to take place when the current agreement expires this week. At the last negotiating session the union demanded wage and benefit increases over three years totaling 46%, while the operators offered only...
...strike would probably damage the union and the operators more than the nation at large. Coal-burning power plants in the U.S. have a 120-day stock pile, and the high-demand heating sea son is almost over. Mines covered by the union agreement now account for only 44% of coal produced in the U.S., down from 70% a decade ago. Some 20,000 U.M.W. members have been laid off. Though both sides are prepared to start bargaining again, no talks have been scheduled, and the ugly mood that has marked previous strikes seems to be on the rise. Just...