AlterNet Blogs: PEEK

 

Obama’s August Surprise in Coal Country? Mountaintop Removal Moratorium and Green Jobs Plan? (VIDEO)
2012-07-17 20:28 UTC by jeffbiggers

As the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining–including the re-emerging scandal of reckless black lung policies on strip miners–continue to mount despite the shift of coal production to the heartland and western Power River Basin–President Obama has an election-year opportunity to declare an armistice in the polarized Appalachian coalfields, mend a 40-year mining policy of [...]

 
 

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