TAKE ACTION! Call Congress Today
Call Congress Today 202-224-3121 Please call your Representative today and ask them to become a cosponsor of H.R. 1310, The Clean Water Protection Act.———Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are [...]
Massey Energy Plans Expansion
This story is actually a week or so old, until today I couldn’t decide what I wanted to say about it. Massey Energy CEO, Don Blankenship, recently told Wall Street analysts he intends to open a new mine every 17 days this year. He said the biggest problem would be finding the 300 to 400 [...]
Hostility Meets It’s Match
After some thinking and some provoking and Blues last post – this blogger has declared outright war on the coal industry. If you bring hostility to this blog, be prepared to meet the same. I was naive in thinking we could talk about this like grownups. This is a war and the time for talking [...]
Selenium in Mud River…..
Selenium, a byproduct of Coal mining, is being found in alarming levels in the Mud River…. thus poisoning the native fish population. From the Associated Press: “Selenium pollution from a Boone County mining operation is poisoning fish in the Mud River, leading to serious deformities, according to a biologist’s report. A. Dennis Lemly prepared his [...]
Chemistry 101
Sometimes when I latch on to a topic I just can’t let it go until I have thoroughly chewed it to pieces. I wanted to go back and talk about carbon neutral coal just a little more because frankly it’s leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I’m going to talk about a long forgotten [...]
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