Outsourcing America's Mountains for Coal
With all the concerns over energy these days, much has been made of the need to wean our nation off oil as a way to lessen our dependence on imports from other...
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With all the concerns over energy these days, much has been made of the need to wean our nation off oil as a way to lessen our dependence on imports from other...
A majority of Americans (85%) oppose mountaintop removal mining, according to a new nationwide poll . Perhaps not surprising but very encouraging. Of course,...
The coal industry has a dream -- that one day our cars and trucks will run on liquefied coal. They tout this as a way to free America from its addiction to oil...
When is a stream no longer a stream? In other words, if you fill it, will it still flow? When mountaintop mining occurs the waste rock, rubble, dirt and other...
Last month I blogged about Congress letting the federal moratorium on drilling the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) expire. This came in the face of political...
Yesterday I blogged about the Bush administration's new effort to weaken laws so coal companies can dump mining waste into America's rivers and streams. I...
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