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Environment

Feds Want Coal Industry to Fully Fund Clean-ups

WEKU | By John Cheves, Lexington Herald-Leader
Published August 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM EDT

Kentucky fails to make the coal industry pay enough to clean up the environmental wreckage it leaves behind, according to the U.S. Office of Surface Mining. Though state and federal regulators are negotiating this summer in an attempt to solve the problem, Kentucky lawmakers said Thursday the criticism is another example of President Barack Obama's "war on coal."
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John Cheves, Lexington Herald-Leader
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