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Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department

Rob Perks | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Coalmining, Interior, Appalachia, Dirtyenergy, Lisajackson, Salazar, Mountaintopremoval, Obama, Doi, Osm, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Pizarchik, Green News
Rob Perks

The Interior Department could -- and should -- have published proposed changes right away and proceeded straight to public input.

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Boulder from Mountaintop Coal Mine Smashes Into Kentucky Home

Dave Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Floyd County, Blasting, Boulder, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Mining, Osm, Frasure Creek, Green News
Dave Cooper

What happens when coal companies flatten the mountains directly above Appalachian communities?

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VIDEO UPDATE: Coalfield Uprising Grows: Will Feds Take Down WVA's Embarrassing DEP?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Mountaintop Premoval, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, West Virginia, Renewable Energy, Department of Interior, Coal, Osm, Wvdep, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The failed West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is emerging as an embarrassingly pro-coal anti-mountain public relations nightmare.

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Let Them Eat Coal Ash: OSM Nominee Pizarchik Must Be Stopped Now

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Senate Hearing, Mountaintop Removal, President Barack Obama, Clean Energy, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Coal, Osm, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The Obama's administration's OSM nomination of Pizarchik, the seemingly good-natured and well-meaning Pennsylvania Director of the Bureau of Mining and Reclamation, is a colossal error.

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Coal Companies Destroying, Not Restoring Mountains

Rob Perks | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Coalmining, Mountaintopremoval, Appalachia, Dirtycoal, Osm, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Mountain Top Removal, Green News
Rob Perks

Lax enforcement by state and federal environmental officials means that the mountaintop removal reclamation rarely results in reshaping the mountain to its approximate original state.

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