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“FACES of Coal” infests EPA hearing

May 11, 2011 – 4:45 pm

Pro-mountaintop removal mining front-group FACES of Coal was in Washington, D.C., today to do what they do best: Lie their pants off! May 11 – Washington, D.C.– Today the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment conducted a second day of hearings on the EPA’s regulatory guidance on surface mining and the economic impacts of EPA’s [...]

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In defense of Kentucky mountains

February 21, 2011 – 9:12 am

A few days after hundreds of protestors marched on the state capitol and camped out at Gov. Steve Beshear’s capitol office in a demonstration against mountaintop removal, members of Congress passed a spending bill that significantly weakens the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate the mining practice. The legislation cuts $61 billion from the federal [...]

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LG&E coal ash pond expansion hearing tonight

October 14, 2010 – 1:02 pm

Tonight at 6:00 p.m., Conway Middle School will host another public forum concerning Louisville Gas & Electric’s bid to expand its coal ash storage pond — which contains hazardous byproducts generated by the combustion of coal — in Louisville’s chemically afflicted Rubbertown neighborhood. The administrative portion of LG&E’s application has been accepted, and tonight’s hearing [...]

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New EPA Study: MTR = Bad News

April 5, 2010 – 2:52 pm

In case you’ve been living under a coal-subsidized rock, the vampire communist-controlled Environmental Protection Agency would like to tell you about the negative impact of surface removal mining, if you’ve the time: CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal government scientists say a “growing body of evidence” shows that mountaintop removal coal mining is destroying Appalachian forests and [...]

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Rand Paul: Coal > Environment

December 9, 2009 – 3:51 pm

…Or so it would appear, given Dr. Paul’s opposition to recent Environmental Protection Agency findings that run counter to his support for the coal industry. You see, carbon dioxide and methane are by-products of this whole coal-burning business, and it just so happens that the EPA has deemed them “a danger to the environment and [...]

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Lovely News About Coal

June 29, 2009 – 8:31 pm

Not really. In fact, quite the opposite; the EPA has released a list of the 44 most hazardous coal ash sites that will KILL YOU in the name of industry and job creation. Coal ash, a product of burning coal, is kept in liquid or a slurry, in containment ponds or dams. The EPA lists [...]

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