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Splitting the baby, again
Posted on January 07, 2010
There's been a lot of talk on the cable news shows about how President Obama likes to find middle ground.Take, for example, his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan -- not quite as many has his generals originally asked for, while also pledging to pull them out fairly quickly.People in states like Kentucky and West Virginia have been watching and waiting to see whether that instinct will play out in the controversial topic of mountaintop removal mining, where the tops and sides of mountains are blasted away to get at underlying coal.We get a glimpse this week by looking at how the EPA w...
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