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...when Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act, one of the provisions forbade the burning of fuels with a high sulfur content in the most populous parts of the country. Since at the time nearly 80% of U.S. coal production did not meet the standards, many electric utilities-coal's biggest steady customer-switched to oil. Industry efforts to get Congress to soften the law failed. Finally, in 1974, the Federal Energy Administration, seeking to save oil, ordered 25 utilities to switch back to coal in 74 plants. So far only one power plant has actually made that...
Last year President Ford asked Congress to amend the act so that higher-sulfur coal could be legally burned. The Senate responded by writing a new bill that would actually tighten the standards further. Meanwhile, the coal and utility industries have embarked on several new ways to satisfy...
...coal, which the country has in abundant supply. In addition, loan guarantees totaling $750 million were authorized for small coal operators to open new underground mines, which do less damage to the environment than surface mines; 80% of the loans will go to producers of less-polluting low-sulfur coal...
VOLCANO by Maurice and Katia Krafft. Introduction by Eugene Ionesco. 174 pages. Abrams. $35. Authors Maurice and Katia Krafft have spent most of their lives peering into craters reeking of sulfur smoke, standing on the edges of steaming fissures and dodging red rivers of molten lava. Now they celebrate those exotic outlets for earth's potent forces in the most beautiful-and frightening-book on volcanoes ever assembled. Here, for example, is the black cone of Surtsey rising from the sea off Iceland in 1963, the Indonesian volcano Batur shooting lava bombs skyward in 1971, Italy's Stromboli...
...Sadli. Indonesia has special reasons for keeping its increases small. It sells most of its oil to Japan, where consumption in early 1975 fell 13% below 1973. Also, Indonesia's latest increase brings the price of Central Sumatra sweet crude, a product highly valued for its low sulfur content, to $12.60 per bbl., and China, which does not belong to OPEC, is marketing a similar crude...