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 Stories About: Barack Obama AND coal AND energy AND Illinois AND politics
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Biggers to Obama: Free Appalachia from coal
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David Roberts |
21 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Jeff Biggers suggests an ambitious and risky Appalachian strategy for Barack Obama: By the 1920s, plundered for their coal and unable to compete with the non-union labor in Kentucky and West Virginia, the southern Illinois coal towns had turned into deforested and eroded wastelands, and were depicted by one government report as a 'picture, almost unrelieved, of utter economic devastation.' Southern Illinois lay claim to the highest infant mortality rates in the nati ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, coal, energy, Illinois, mining, politics (all these topics) |
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Obama joins Illinois legislators pushing to revive FutureGen
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David Roberts |
30 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| When the DOE announced it was yanking support for FutureGen, I wondered where Obama would come down on it. Pro-Illinois, or pro-green-coal-haters? Here's our answer: Nine members of Illinois' congressional delegation are urging President Bush to keep the FutureGen clean-coal power plant on track. In a letter sent to the president today, the bipartisan group said it has lost faith in Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman after meeting with him Tuesday. Bodman, in t ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, coal, energy, Illinois, politics (all these topics) |
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