Sentences with phrase «allow coal mining»

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«Because they allow us to distinguish if contaminants are coming from natural sources, fracking and shale gas development, coal mining, coal ash disposal, or other causes.»

Calvin Coolidge In 1923, President Coolidge issued an executive order eliminating 10 acres of land from the monument to allow for coal mining on the west side of Amalik Bay.

That's why signing a law that allowed children to work in the coal mines didn't feel as harsh as it perhaps should have.

Finally, the nonprofit group Appalachian Voices has created ilovemountains.org/myconnection, which allows visitors to type in a ZIP code and find out if their utility sells electricity produced with coal mined from mountaintops in that region.

This peer - reviewed study by a pair of researchers at Rice University in Houston shows that while fracking - produced water shouldn't be allowed near drinking water, it's less toxic than similar waste from coal - bed methane mining.

Yet when such people are elected to the executive branch and must make real world decisions, they end up approving expanded off - shore drilling and allowing continued mountaintop removal, long - wall coal mining, hydro - fracking, etc. — maybe even a tar sands pipeline.

In late November 2009, Peabody Energy's Arclar Coal Company received two permits, one for water quality certification and one for discharge, allowing mining to expand on 668 acres at the Wildcat Hills Complex in southern Illinois.

The lawsuit contends that coal companies pumped waste coal slurry into empty mines, and that underground cracks allowed the waste to pollute the aquifer.

While boondoggles involving wood chips from natural forests have emerged due to foolish regulation, a more gradual approach to conversion could well support a growth industry in «renewable» coal replacements, while allowing existing mining operations to use up their resources with little interference.

In January 2011, District Court Judge ruled that the groups» lawsuit challenging the Otter Creek Coal Mine was allowed to proceed.

Yet as cruel as coal mining could be, over time it helped liberate humans from agricultural drudgery, increase productivity, raise living standards, and, at least in developed nations, reduce reliance on wood for fuel, allowing reforestation and the return of wildlife.

A year and a half earlier, BLM Wyoming approved two major coal lease sales that allowed Peabody to add 1.1 billion tons of coal to that very coal mine.

Australians who are intelligent enough to see the damage that climate change will bring with it, and who have not been corrupted by the greed that is associated with the coal industry, are fiercely opposed to allowing any more coal mining.

The loophole unlocked 347 million tons of coal for mining and combustion by allowing road construction for coal mines.

(It was a more streamlined bill that limited pollution from big «upstream» energy companies — think coal mining and oil production — and didn't allow a freewheeling market in carbon - pollution credits.)

Allowing lease by applications was a key change made possible once the BLM moved to decertify the Powder River Basin as a coal - producing region — even though it's the source of almost half the coal mined in the U.S. BLM is supposed to manage this coal «in the best interests of the nation,» and it has a process meant to determine the fair market value of a lease.

Named for the birds used to test for danger in a coal mine, they first appeared in 2002 when Vermont libraries posted «the FBI hasn't been here» signs in response to the Patriot Act, which allowed the government to demand information under gag orders.