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...right, it is yet another example of how the Bush Administration has managed to get what it wants on the environment. For two years, the President has found ways to bypass restrictions on oil and gas drilling, mining, logging and coal-fired power generation. Within days of the Republican gains of last November's elections, the Administration stepped up what critics view as an all-out assault on the environment with a series of pronouncements: that snowmobiles could operate in Yellowstone National Park, oil drilling could expand in Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, the National Marine Fisheries Service would...
...taller than my thigh, the boy with coal-dark eyes swings himself easily onto my white horse. Feet dangling high above the stirrups, he gallops along the shore of a frozen lake, turns, rears and dismounts with a grace that brings to mind his distant ancestors--the Mongol warriors who swept across Asia...
...someplace"--in our case, straight into a big gold mine where giant earth-digging machines belch fumes and wildcatters pan in acrid ditches. (Mining is Mongolia's most valuable industry, though most Mongolians work in agriculture. Pollution is a problem around Ulan Bator, especially from the burning of soft coal in power plants...
Guinier, who spoke extemporaneously, used the metaphor of “the miner’s canary,” discussed in her recent book by the same name, to describe the black experience in America. Coal miners used to bring the songbird into the mines to measure the level of toxicity in the atmosphere. The failure of a canary’s fragile respiratory system signaled danger to the miners...
...chance, a national crackdown on China's infamously dangerous mines had recently gotten underway, with Beijing requiring the mines either to close or meet more-stringent operating standards. So officials from the local coal safety-inspection department arrived in Longshan in late April to check the town's six private mines. Youbao shut down for two months during the inspection, and the locals thought their problems might be coming to an end. It wasn't to be. By late June, Youbao had secured a license to operate?and Longshan's houses started to shake again...