[Coach_Owens87]

this was the title to an article that appeared on the front page of the herald leader today. The article revealed that non-profit groups such as CEDAR, and the kentucky foundation, which runs the website coaleducation.org, gets it's fund from taxpayers, in the sum of $400,000/year. The site is supposed to educate students and citizens about coal. In reality it just spins the truth and promotes a pro-mining, pro-mtr agenda. The site actually claims that mtr is good for the environment, and is a win win situation. It also said that the environmentalist where just making "emotional" statements about mining, and that it wasn't true.

There is a company behind of all this though, and it shouldn't be a shock, the site is controlled by the kentucky coal association, and is actually run out of their Lexington office. The state asked the site to change some of it's content to be more neutr after the herald leader questioned them about it.

I know a lot of people on here like to use that site, and im glad that the public now knows it's nothing more than a pro-mining propaganda site.