Friday, April 15, 2011

Obama administration announces massive coal mining expansion

Click here to access article by Glenn Hurowitz from Grist. (Sorry about the late posting of this article which is dated three weeks ago. However, in my defense it needs to be recognized that mainstream media keeps news like this out of the public eye as much as possible.)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced yesterday an enormous expansion in coal mining that threatens to increase U.S. climate pollution by an amount equivalent to more than half of what the United States currently emits in a year.