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Although other types of surface or underground mining are less environmentally destructive than mountaintop mining, they're also more expensive, so companies like Massey are reluctant to alter current practices. Going forward, however, Massey has pledged to monitor water quality; periodically it assembles a 30-member environmental review arm to do so. The EPA is also keeping tabs on mining's impact, while Obama has pledged to support the development of clean energy. Activists like Bonds say attention from the top levels of the current administration helps them continue fighting at this crucial time. But for the former residents...
According to Harvard Facebook, Deutsch is now a member of Kirkland House...
When one future Quincy House resident did not answer, a member of the greeting party said to the closed door, “You?...
...Hong Kong government unveiled a package of electoral reforms it pledged would "roll forward democracy." The proposal called for 10 new seats in the 60-seat legislature, divided equally between the elected and the selected seats, and for an extra 400 people to be added to the 800-member committee that nominates and elects the Chief Executive. In other words, the proposal offered bubkes. As one pro-democracy politician put it, "They've given us nothing. Just put us in a dead...
...Most of the pan-democrats are working toward a compromise. Chief Executive Donald Tsang hinted last week that he, too, is looking for a "middle ground," and a member of the cabinet said the final proposal, which will be voted on this summer (and requires two-thirds support to pass), must have "something for everyone." The pan-democrats are willing to trade votes for assurances that the Chief Executive will be elected by universal suffrage (and that the nomination committee will be greatly expanded, if not abolished) by 2017 and that legislature will abolish functional constituencies by 2020. Proving...