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Big Coal scores win against Obama Admin

Andrew Topf | October 07, 2011 | 6:11 am Energy Europe Coal 

The US coal industry scored a victory in court Thursday after a federal judge ruled that the Obama administration did not have authority to tighten oversight of permits used by coal mining companies that do "mountaintop mining." The ruling by...

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