Lamar!

I hope this bill will pass. Nice to see a Republican recognizing the value of national natural treasures in his state and saying no to coal mining companies.

• Alexander has introduced legislation with Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) to ban the controversial practice of mountaintop-removal coal mining. He said he hopes to stop the shearing of mountaintops in West Virginia and Kentucky and prevent a resurgence of the practice in Tennessee, which has relatively little mining but was the site of mountaintop removal in decades past.

There is no excuse for this sort of rape of the landscape in the name of cheaper coal.
- posted by john @ 10:43 AM