Thursday, March 26, 2009

ENVIRONMENT: Has Mountaintop Mining Peaked?

http://www.publicintegrity.org/blog/entry/1228/
Activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is praising the Obama administration for moving to stop "the greatest environmental tragedy ever to befall our nation" while the coal industry says the administration has put tens of thousands of jobs at risk throughout Appalachia. But federal officials say they have done neither. Still, it was easy to see why people might be confused.