[Old School]

I really like this Judge Chambers, he doesn't back down from the rich and powerful coal companies. These slurry lakes and ponds have been breaking the rules set fourth by the clean water act for years, but no one has enforced it. The bad thing is the "clean coal" oxymoron, and the clean air act that where supposed to protect the planet but all they have done is increase the use of slurry ponds to hold the sludge from cleaning the coal.

We need to shift our attention towards cleaner, renewable energies anyway, maybe this will be a slight push to get to that point quicker.

And as far as the major blow to coal companies, they have been breaking laws and making millions for years, they're a ingenious industry, they can find a way to move on, while protecting the envioronment.

If this ruling stands it will be a major blow to both surface and underground mining, I agree that coal mining is a ingenious industry, but this could be the straw that borke the back of coal mining and if this rule stands in West Virginia it only be a short time before it is enforced everywhere. Everyone needs to keep in mind that these sediment ponds do more than anything else to protect the streams below the mining operations. If the coal industry by some chance was to come up with a alterative method envioronmentalist would still complain and try to shut down coal mining.