Don Surber writes:

Federal judges to West Virginia: No coal, no wind
I see where federal Judge Chuck Chambers’s war on coal — 500 coal miners in Clay County (population 10,000) are the latest casualties — finally got some national attention.
“The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant enhanced review. And, agency went even further in October, announcing plans to revoke a permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia,” Amanda Carpenter reported for the Washington Times.
“The latest setback for the coal industry was announced on Tuesday when CONSOL Energy said close to 500 workers would lose jobs at their Fola Operations location near Bickmore, West Virginia in February 2010.”
So West Virginia will just switch to that alternative energy source, wind power.
Not so fast, said another federal judge, Roger Titus, who ordered a halt to construction of windmills in the hills for fear of killing a few bats

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