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Steingraber Calls Out Illinois Fracking Regulations
Posted by EcoWatch: Jeff Biggers on May 23rd, 2013
EcoWatch: Before environmental lobbyists and legislators push a hydraulic fracking bill through the Illinois legislature, they need to sit down with farmers in Clinton County and learn how well regulations defended their water, farms and cankered lives from the contamination of coal slurry in the Pearl Aquifer.
Then they would fight to the end, like five southern Illinois county boards, for a moratorium on fracking--instead of a regulatory compromise that undercuts their efforts.
That was the advice...
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If Big Coal Can Phase Out Mountaintop Removal
Posted by EcoWatch: Jeff Biggers on November 16th, 2012
EcoWatch: Call it a moment of truth for Big Coal--and a small crack in the wall of denial for the U.S. Congress and the White House.
On the cliff of bankruptcy, St. Louis-based Patriot Coal Corporation agreed this week to a settlement to phase out its large-scale strip mining and mountaintop removal operations in central Appalachia. Even more importantly, Patriot became the first coal company to admit "our mining operations impact the communities in which we operate in significant ways, and we are committed...
Clean Coal is a Hoax, Mr. President, So Drop it
Posted by EcoWatch: Jeff Biggers on October 18th, 2012
EcoWatch: Out of all the meaningless slogans bantered around this election season, President Obama`s clinging to the "clean coal" banner ranks as one of the most specious.
"Clean coal" is a hoax, and the president knows it, and outside of appeasing a few Midwestern Big Coal sycophants and his Duke Energy coal buddy Jim Rogers, who helped to underwrite the Democratic Convention this summer in Charlotte, Obama has little to gain from invoking the offensive phrase.
You`re offensive, President Obama, to...