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Report from Filthy Fuels rally

July 24, 2007 at 08:00pm
Jefferson County

County profiles available for viewing

July 16, 2007 at 08:00pm

We recently added profiles of five Eastern Kentucky counties showing how prevalent strip mining is in these counties.


Visit our new county profiles section of our Canary Project pages to see all five of them.


Here is Martin County's profile:

Living in Coal Country

July 11, 2007 at 08:00pm

Truck w/PorchSo what is is really like to live in the coal-fields?  Ernest Brewer from the Brewer Bulletin has wrote up a post about what it is like to live near coal mining operations.

A slew of new letters to the editor

July 9, 2007 at 08:00pm

Fueling debt

Kentucky politicians feel they are in debt to coal companies, which have given Kentucky politicians large amounts of money for campaigns.

Don't help coal industry create more hardship

July 8, 2007 at 08:00pm

Gov. Ernie Fletcher is holding a special legislative session to pass additional subsidies for the coal industry.


These incentives and tax breaks to produce coal-to-liquid fuel will encourage the destructive environmental idiocy that continues to destroy our Eastern Kentucky mountains.

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