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The coal industry is busily helping the Administration make its case. The National Mining Association brought in as its president Jack Gerard, a well-known Republican lobbyist and former Senate aide with easy access to the new White House. A coalition of mining companies, coal transporters and electricity producers known...
DC: Well, I think coal, from a political standpoint, is important partly for the consumers because it is one of the most affordable sources of energy we've got. Secondly there's a very large supply out there. We've got huge coal reserves in this country. And we know...
That pragmatic, measured approach - noted by Western and African observers in Kinshasa - may help bring an end to a war in which six neighboring countries, the Congolese army and various rebel groups have carved a country the size of Western Europe into a jumble of fiefdoms. Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi...
Last week, in a remarkably irresponsible move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the reversal of a standard proposed at the end of President Bill Clinton’s term that would have reduced the amount of arsenic permitted in drinking water by 80 percent. The current limit, which was...
The real motivation behind President George W. Bush’s reversal of the policy seems to stem not from his concern for empirical evidence, but from his loyalty to the mining industry. If forced to reduce the amount of arsenic pollution it produces, the industry would stand to lose...