Tag Archives: Big Coal

The EPA wants you (to comment on coal waste impoundments)!

Today is the last day for public comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed coal ash regulations, which will have an impact on communities as far away as Hazard, Kentucky and as close as the Rubbertown neighborhood of this fair (and polluted) River City. If you haven’t already, click here to give your two cents [...]

EPA hears coal ash comments as MTR protest gets buried

Yesterday, representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency listened to 11 hours worth of testimonies delivered by concerned citizens, environmental activists and pro-coal industry-types to aid the EPA in its adoption of new regulations for the toxic byproducts generated by the burning of coal (i.e. coal ash, fly ash, slurry, et al.). That this hearing took [...]

Sen. McConnell humps Big Coal in D.C.

While you were sleeping off last night’s Aqua Buddha-inspired bong hits, your tireless Senate Minority Leader, Beaker Mitch McConnell, was attending a bullshit FACES of Coal rally this morning in Washington, D.C. Despite the fact that Kentucky was recently named the 4th worst state in the nation for coal plant-related deaths and the increased financial [...]