New rules to limit mountaintop mining
FLASHBACK:
"Scientists warn against mountaintop mining" by Associated Press | January 8, 2010
WASHINGTON - Mountaintop coal mining - in which peaks are blasted off and stream valleys buried under tons of rubble - is so destructive that the government should stop giving out new permits to do it, a group of scientists said in a paper released yesterday.
Oh, I AGREE with that -- and it doesn't take a scientists to figure this one out.
The group, headed by a University of Maryland researcher, did one of the most comprehensive studies to date of the controversial practice, also known as “mountaintop removal.’’
Afterward, they did something that scientists usually don’t step beyond data-gathering to take a political stand....
Oh, yeah, RIGHT!!!
See: April Fools Day
As for the newspapers, it's all agenda-pushing politics.
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