Coal in the United States: A Status Report

Perry, H.

doi:10.1126/science.222.4622.377

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“…There were some setbacks, however. A number of legislative, economic, infrastructural, and environmental factors constrained the rates and extent of coal production and consumption (Perry 1983 (Gordon 1986). Indeed, Gordon attributes the doubling of average coal prices at the mine-mouth between 1969 and 1981 as much to supply factors (e.g., legislative controls on mine health and safety) as to increased demand for coal.…”

Section: The Coal-energy System In the United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to the interplay of capital, labor, and technology, federal regulation has been influential, if inconsistent, in the restructuring of the coal-energy system and in the movement of coal to power plants (Gordon 1978;James 1982;Perry 1983;Rose et al 1991). In cases such as the 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and 1978 Power-Plant Fuel-Use Restrictions, strict regulatory control over the direction of the coal-energy industry resulted in uneven regional impacts, generally favoring lowsulfur coal flows previously identified in the analysis.…”

Section: Government Regulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Industrial Restructuring and the United States Coal-Energy System, 1972–1990: Regulatory Change, Technological Fixes, and Corporate Control

Elmes

Harris

1996

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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In the past three decades the coal‐energy system in the United States has undergone significant restructuring in location, technology, and organization. During the 1970s and 1980s the quadrupling of oil prices coupled with changing relations of production, legislative action for environmental protection, and deregulation in coal transportation initiated major reorganizations of the movement of coal from mines to electricity‐generating plants. In this paper a three‐part analysis examines the corporate and regulatory processes influencing coal flows during restructuring. Part one describes intrastate flows using coal‐recepts from power plants. Part two identifies the changing spatial relationships in the coal‐energy system between 1972 and 1990 using a dyadic factor analysis of interstate coal flows. Some origin‐destination pairs responded rapidly to changes in coal demand. Others lagged behind until coal production or consumption facilities were developed under new financial and regulatory conditions. Drawing on contemporary and traditional perspectives of industrial reorganization, part three interprets the varying geographic responses of the U.S. coal‐energy system and links the industry's restructuring to an emerging coordination of decision making between public and private interests in production, distribution, and consumption. Beyond the well‐established shift to western coal fields and the rise of utility consumption associated with population growth, the analysis provides evidence of the grafting of increasingly influential national economic and political forces on to local and regional control of coal production and consumption.

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Section: The Coal-energy System In the United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Government Regulationmentioning

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Industrial Restructuring and the United States Coal-Energy System, 1972–1990: Regulatory Change, Technological Fixes, and Corporate Control

Elmes

Harris

1996

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…During the year 1900, coal provided 93 percent of all the energy used in the United States (Perry, 1983). By 1972, coal was providing only 17.3 percent of the Nation's energy because of increased use of oil and gas.…”

Section: Coal Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%