Look to the past for our future  Angela Jackson Contributing
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All we seem to hear lately is gloom and doom for the coal
industry in Kentucky.  People appear to be angry and up in arms,
literally…like arms across Bell County, protesting for the coal
miners. Thank you, Mr. Harris, but next time — Hands around the
White House. But I don’t hear the big mine conglomerates being
vocal and protesting with the workers. Oh, they appear to
quietly complain as they close mine after mine and lament the
Obama policy and strict EPA standards, but to me it looks as if
they have left Kentucky’s coal miners to fend for themselves,
and what public outcry there is, the big conglomerates are
absent from it.  And you don’t hear coal advocates protesting
the energy and pollution scapegoating. Sure, coal dust is bad,
but methane from gas wells and leaks into lakes are far more
dangerous to lives in the environment. Coal may pollute the air,
but jet fuel is destroying