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Canton Lake Thanksgiving: Residents Rally to Protect Clean Drinking Water from Strip Mine

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Coal Slurry, Clean Water Act, Gov. Pat Quinn, Strip Mine, Environment, Coal, Canton Lake, Clean Water, Strip Mining, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

This Thanksgiving, residents in Canton and Orion Township in Fulton County, Illinois will enjoy the basic human right of clean drinking water -- though, not without a fight.

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Canton Lake Debacle: Gov. Quinn, Do You Know Your IEPA Might Permit the State's Most Destructive and Reckless Strip Mine?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Canton Lake, Dirty Coal, Banner Marsh, Illinois River, Canton, Strip Mine, Wind, Jobs, Banner Mine, Coal, Gov. Pat Quinn, Chicago Environment, Strip Mining, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

In light of the lack of compliance and violations of Clean Water Act laws, is Gov. Quinn's IEPA making a mockery out of the legal responsibility and moral obligation of the state on behalf of its citizens?

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Utah Approves Strip Mine Near Bryce Canyon National Park

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Mine, Utah Board of Oil Gas Mining, Alton Coal Development, National Resources Defense Council, Bryce Canyon, Utah Wilderness, Sierra Club, Strip Mine, National Park, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — A coal company claimed victory Tuesday when a Utah state board rejected a legal challenge brought by environmental groups that ...

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300 Clean Water Act Violations! Illinois Citizens File Notice to Sue Reckless Coal Strip Mine

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Springfield, Pat Quinn, Sierra Club, Dirty Coal, Prairie River Network, Chicago, Clean Water Act, Epa, Strip Mine, Big Coal, Endangered Species, Illinois, Coal, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

How did discharges of illegal levels of pollutants, including manganese, total suspended solids, sulfates, iron, and acidic water wind up in some of the last old growth forest in Illinois?

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