{"id":508936,"date":"2010-04-03T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2010-04-03T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T14:28:10","slug":"faces-of-coal-opens-mouth-inserts-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/508936","title":{"rendered":"FACES of Coal Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7890\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/03\/faces-of-coal-opens-mouth-inserts-foot\/faces-of-coal-lambasts-us-epa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7890\" title=\"FACES of Coal lambasts US EPA\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/FACES-of-Coal-lambasts-US-EPA.jpg\" alt=\"The coal industry promotion group FACES of Coal lambasts US EPA for introducing new rules for issuing mountaintop coal mining permits\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection announced <a title=\"us epa press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/owow\/wetlands\/guidance\/pdf\/appalachian_mtntop_mining_press_release.pdf\" >new guidelines relating to mountaintop removal coal mine permits<\/a>, and the coal industry promotion group FACES of Coal was right on the case.\u00a0 FACES promptly issued a blistering press release <a title=\"FACES press release, prnewswire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/faces-of-coal-says-epa-intent-on-destroying-appalachian-economy-89787662.html\" >lambasting the EPA for attacking the Appalachian economy<\/a> with &#8220;as dangerous and threatening an action as this region has ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s no surprise that a group like <a title=\"demsogblog.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/desmogblog.com\/new-grassroots-pro-coal-group-backed-k-street-pr-firm\" >FACES of Coal<\/a> would come out with both guns blazing, considering its mission to promote the coal mining industry.\u00a0 But seriously, &#8220;dangerous and threatening?&#8221;\u00a0 After all, it&#8217;s not like the EPA is proposing to blow up hundreds of mountains and bury thousands of miles of mountain streams right here in the U.S.A. &#8211; or is FACES of Coal arguing that Appalachia needs <a title=\"ilovemountains.org website\" href=\"http:\/\/ilovemountains.org\/resources\" >more mountains blown up<\/a>?\u00a0 I&#8217;m so confused!<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/03\/faces-of-coal-opens-mouth-inserts-foot\/#more-7889\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=5fmsSLSiuFc:54qS2uW45Fc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/5fmsSLSiuFc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection announced new guidelines relating to mountaintop removal coal mine permits, and the coal industry promotion group FACES of Coal was right on the case.\u00a0 FACES promptly issued a blistering press release lambasting the EPA for attacking the Appalachian economy with &#8220;as dangerous and threatening an action as this region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}