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Appalachia. >> issued an executive order reopening federal land to the new coal leases and rolled back environmental rules including ones aimed at requiring the coal industry to monitor and report toxic mining waste in waterways. >> they stop the the requirements for companies to report and now halted a study that would investigate whether there are in he public health impacts for communities that are in the vicinity of mountain top removal mining. that fits into an overall pattern of setting sc...

Blasts blow up mountains to get into the coal inside. it is dumped into streams and valleys near by. >> president trump is showing he is looking out for the coal industry and the coal executives and not the people. >> since taking office, trump has withdrawn from the paris climate agreement, issued an executive order reopening federal lands to new coal leases and rolled back environmental rules, including ones aimed at requiring the coal industry to monitor and report toxic mining waste. >> they...

And act before its too late. >> steve: but the new research shows people like the president might actually be setting science aside just to score a few political points because the inconvenient truth is the planet has not warmed in over a decade. rich loury calls those people climate deniers. he is the editor of the national review. you just wrote a new column that says there is nothing sadder than a climate denier. >> yes. we have pumped an enormous amount of co 2 in the atmosphere to last a de...