Late last year, U.S. Representative Rob Bishop voted in favor of H.R. 2273, a law that prevents regulations to protect American communities from toxic pollutants contained in coal ash from being implemented. Three days from now, the coal industry is giving Rob Bishop his reward.
Who supports the effort to bring hydrofracturing back under the control of the American people? The list of cosponsors has no Republicans.
Last year, the Department of the Interior published regulations to keep the carcinogenic and otherwise poisonous rubble created by mountaintop removal mining out of the streams that sustain wildlife and (if you want to be anthropocentric) feed into the drinking water supplies for millions of Americans. Last month, Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio introduced H.Amdt [...]
John Raese’s insinuation that global warming science is all just a big hoax will work, if West Virginia voters don’t bother to educate themselves about the issue in any detail. Raese’s Senate campaign has placed its bet firmly in favor of the ignorance of the West Virginia electorate.
Mountaintop removal coal mining supporter Rand Paul suggests that Kentuckians might enjoy seeing parts of their landscape look more like Iowa.
John Shimkus doesn’t really want to drill or mine. He wants other people to do the dirty work and drill and mine for him.
Less than one week before the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster, the Mongiardo for Senate campaign wrote a press release criticizing regulation of coal mines as a “declaration of war on Kentucky’s coal industry.”
It is the job of Congress to oversee the Executive Branch, including the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. That oversight has been as neglected as Massey Energy’s coal mines.
Capturing methane from coal mines could have the double benefit of slowing global warming and protecting coal miners. How can the appropriate expense of this benefit be calculated?
Companies doing mountaintop removal coal mining have been using a loophole in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to fill in entire creek beds with rubble containing deadly heavy metals, which make their way into the drinking water of local residents and destroy the waterway far downstream.
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