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Half of U.S. coal output already comes from surface mines, and energy companies have taken leases on large chunks of the huge unexploited coal reserves of the West, where low-sulfur coal lies close to the surface. But with 1,000 chewed-up acres being added each week to the existing 2.5 million acres of strip-mined land, Congress is finally acting to make sure that coal producers do not create another ravaged Appalachia...
...bill's main impact will be on low-rainfall Western states like Montana, the Dakotas, New Mexico and Wyoming, which have 25 billion tons of coal reserves. There, reclamation is difficult and sometimes impossible. Complicating the problem is the new demand for Western coal, whose low-sulfur content makes it highly attractive to industries that must otherwise invest in expensive antipollution equipment during the next few years to conform with the federal Clean...
...probably be the most polluting plant in the country. The group that approached Harvard, the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), contended that the plant would ruin the air and water around it and spoil nearby farmers' crops unless it were equipped with additional controls to stem its sulfur dioxide emissions...
...plant, and then had several experts go over the report and AP&L's environmental impact statement. Finally, in late spring, the ACSR came out with a four-page statement on the plant that called on AP&L to "re-examine its plans with respect to the problem of sulfur dioxide and other emissions" and said the utility should consider installing the additional emission controls ACORN has been pushing...
...first-quarter profits dropped 21%, they were still large enough (48? a share) to maintain the dividend (45?). But the utility's managers decided they must hang onto every penny for uses even more important than rewarding stockholders. Most crucial: paying for the low-sulfur Arab oil that the utility must buy in order to avoid polluting the skies over New York City and Westchester County. A year ago the oil cost $4.50 per bbl.; today Con Ed is paying as much as $15.50. A near doubling of its electric and gas rates since 1970 has not given...