Word: stripping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congressional confusion allows the President to take the lead, and Ford is willing to do so. Last week he vetoed a bill to regulate the strip mining of coal, arguing that the restrictions arrived at to protect the environment would be too costly for consumers and reduce coal production. Though the bill had passed the House May 7 by a 293-to-115 margin, the Democratic leaders put off until June 10 attempts to override it. As of last week they clearly did not have the two-thirds majority needed to break the veto. "We may back into an energy...
Heedless Growth. Wyoming prospered-but at a price. Crash industrial development has produced heedless, disorderly growth in such once quiet towns as Rock Springs and Gillette. Poorly controlled strip mining for coal threatens to ravage the ranch lands in the Powder River Basin. Hathaway also condoned the killing of golden eagles and favored building a jetport in Grand Teton National Park. Neither is a happy precedent, since the Interior Secretary is responsible for protecting U.S. wildlife and the national parks. Some 20 environmental groups were aghast at this record and immediately protested Hathaway's Cabinet nomination...
...season of November had washed themselves out of the sky, and I was headed home. It seemed like it was going to be an easy haul to my home back in Niles. Michigan--just 1850 miles to Chicago and then another 60 or so and I could strip and dive into the brown river that swirled behind our house...
...Choice. Other critics of the bill contend that the main impact will be felt by small strip miners in Appalachia, who cannot afford the reclamation costs, or by consumers, whose electric bills could rise as much as 15% because utilities would either buy more high-priced oil to substitute for lost coal output or pay more for coal itself. Some electric companies, in fact, may not even have a choice. Last week the Government announced hearings on whether to order nine Midwestern utilities to use coal as fuel instead of oil or natural gas. Before the Government's authority...
...Permits for strip mining on alluvial valley floors west of the 100th meridian (which runs from North Dakota to Texas) will not be issued for operations that threaten existing or potential farming or ranching activities...