BLUMER: Are brownouts in Ohio’s future?

By   /  May 9, 2012  /  Commentary, Ohio, WatchBlog  /  No Comments

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By Tom Blumer | Special to Ohio Watchdog
The direct voter frustration with what the Obama administration and regulations issued by its Environmental Protection Agency are doing to West Virginia’s coal industry seen in that state’s primaryon Tuesday is surely also present in Ohio.

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Document Dump: GAO Releases Report on Mountaintop Removal

By   /  December 10, 2009  /  WatchBlog  /  1 Comment

On top of all the other coal and carbon-related news that broke this week, the Government Accountability Office released an 88-page report, titled “Surface Coal Mining: Characteristics of Mining in Mountainous Areas of Kentucky and West Virginia.” The report is a comprehensive look at mountaintop removal (MTR) in Appalachia.
Charleston Gazette reporter and anti-mountaintop removal advocate Ken Ward Jr. was [...]

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