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I have a piece up at Bill Moyers' site connecting the exploitation that led to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 with coal companies exploitation of labor and degradation of nature today: In recent years, American mining companies have undermined the effectiveness of many of these...

Coal Mining Deaths, 1900-2012

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On December 31, 2013
In yesterday's post on the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Joe B in comments pointed us out to the official MSHA statistics on mine deaths between 1900 and 2012. It's remarkable. In 1907, 3,242 people died in coal mine accidents. That doesn't include...

Selenium

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On November 16, 2013

This is not an acceptable decision from the EPA during a Democratic administration: Today, the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection to change how toxic selenium.

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