Reply #2: Future Grows More Hazy For Mountaintop Mining.

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EPA's Fluctuating Messages Concern W.Va. Residents.

'As Washington has become more focused on climate change, coal has become something like the new tobacco: publicly reviled, at least by some, but still deeply embedded in the economy. Coal produces dirty water when it is mined and greenhouse gases when it is burned, but it also accounts for about half of U.S. electric power, and coal mining provides about 82,000 jobs.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/10/AR2009041003414.html?hpid=moreheadlines