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hunter

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3. Coal mining is killing the environment that supports us all.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 09:20 PM

Sep 2014

Coal ought to be banned, for the health of the miners, and for the health of our earth.

Nobody should be mining coal.

Put these miners to work in industries superseding coal.

Until then, safety regulations ought to be very strongly enforced.

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