On Thursday, August 19, the Alabama Surface Mining Commission hosted a public hearing on an application for a coal mine called the Shepherd Bend Mine along the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River northwest of Birmingham and southwest of Dora and Sumiton. The commission has 60 days from August 19 to rule on the…
Daily Archives: August 23, 2010
Scientists Find Seafloor Covered in Oil 40 Miles South of Panama City
Just to summarize and counter a Newhouse press report out of New Jersey (which I won’t dignify with a link) calling the entire Gulf Coast oil disaster overblown “hype,” and the media coverage of it worse than the spill itself, let’s summarize some recent findings. A citizens group conducting its own water samples in the…
Public Citizen Asks Candidates to Return Elections to Voters
PublicCitizen is asking candidates around the country to stand with their constituents and demand that elections be returned to voters. In January, the Supreme Court tossed out a hundred years of election laws and declared that corporations were free to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections. The Court concluded that corporations have the…
