Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 111, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 2016 Page: 4 of 10
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4 — Gainesville, Texas DAILY REGISTER Thursday, February 4, 2016
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Hank Graddy, water
issues committee chairman
of the Sierra Club’s
Cumberland chapter in
Lexington, Kentucky, said
environmentalists wanted
an outright ban on moun-
State regulators, he not- taintop mining and within
100 feet of streams. The
regulations still allow the
practice if it doesn’t do
harm.
Mining jobs were going
away anyway, he said,
likening a shift from coal
mining to the decline in
tobacco farming.
Graddy, whose family
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Species Act,” Eckman said.
$80,000 in West State officials are resist-
doing other ing the measures, as well,
mitting mines. work, the association said
It would allow the in a letter to the agency.
Department of Fish and
Wildlife to block a state to cost coal states $2.5 mil- in a letter to the mining
from issuing a mining per- lion in taxes annually, agency, saying it should
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an "overdue" update to coal
mining rules.
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“It’s the same situation
es. of Environmental with fossil fuels," he said
The rules come on top of Protection called it too
Shelley Moore other controversial meas-
Capito, R-West Virginia, ures taken by the Obama
and a member of the Senate administration to reign in rules, a spokeswoman for
Environment and Public the environmental impacts West Virginia Gov. Earl
Works Committee, said in a of coal, including new lim- Ray Tomblin referred to
statement that she’s its on carbon pollution comments he made in
“deeply concerned about from power plants last October calling the propos-
the devastating effects” of August. al “the equivalent of a per- papers and websites. Reach
“The Clean Power Plan sonal foul - hitting a man him at
office’s expansion of regu- is designed to stop coal use. when he’s already down.”
PLACE, by a man who arrived home.
Investigators believe a Police Chief Gary Stewart says
woman fatally shot her daugh- the man called 911 to report
ter-in-law and one of her sons finding his mother, his wife and
before killing herself at the his younger brother dead.
Houston-area house they The Fort Bend County
shared. Sheriffs Office says the man
Police in Meadows Place, who located the bodies is the
about 15 miles southwest of father of the two youngsters.
Houston, say a toddler and a His slam wife was the children's
baby in the home were not mother. His brother who was
harmed. killed was a teenager.
Authorities are trying to Names of those who died
determine a motive for the weren't immediately released,
shootings, discovered Tuesday Autopsies have been ordered.
Two doctors didn't immediately Wednesday. Prosecutors had on whether the physicians
Mexican doctors are return messages no immediate information are related.
accused of submitting more
than 50,000 bogus claims to
a U.S. insurance company
in a $5 million benefits
scam.
Federal prosecutors in
Texas says fraudulent
claims were faxed to
Georgia-based Aflac Inc.
between 2001 and 2010.
Aflac policyholders alleged-
ly were paid to sign the false
reports.
Dr. Mayolo Melchor and
Dr. Bertha Hernandez-
Melchor, both of Reynosa,
Mexico, face charges of
conspiracy to commit wire
fraud and eight counts of
wire fraud.
Both were indicted in
2011 in South Texas, arrest-
ed in Mexico and extradited
to Houston. Melchor faces a
detention hearing Thursday
in McAllen. A federal mag-
istrate Tuesday ordered
Hernandez-Melchor to
remain in custody.
Lawyers representing the
WASHINGTON - The latory powers. The Stream Protection plan
coal industry is bracing for Complying with the is designed to stop coal Massachusetts, a member
tougher rules in the next rules would lead to higher production,” Bill Bissett, of environment
few months that are expect- coal prices at a time when president of the Kentucky
ed to slow production, cost production is already Coal Association, said in an
thousands of mining jobs, expected to slow 15 percent interview,
and drain millions of dol- from 2020 through 2040, Senate Majority Leader
lars a year from the coffers according to a report by the Mitch McConnell, R-
of coal-dependent states Congressional Research Kentucky, in a statement
including Kentucky and Service, the public policy called the proposed regula-
research arm of Congress. tions part of Obama’s more than 30 years old, and
The decline in demand “repeated and gratuitous streams in the Appalachian
though, say the Obama that follows would feed a attacks on Kentuckians region are being buried at
administration should be cycle further decreasing whose only crime is work- the rate of 120 miles per
even more aggressive in overall production, the ing hard to maintain a reli-
protecting streams and con- report said. able source of energy and
trolling the destructive The industry is already provide for their families."
practices of mountaintop expected to lose more than Adam Eckman, the
mining. 15,000 full-time jobs by National Mining
The federal Office of 2040 - about 16 percent of Association’s general coun-
the miners employed in sei, said the administration
plying with its proposed 2012 - before the rules take hasn’t shown a need for
changes to 475 rules will effect. The Office of stronger rules,
cost the coal industry $52 Surface Mining estimates
million a year. The agency's its proposal will cost anoth- ed, continue to approve
proposed Stream Protection er 590 jobs annually, but mining operations.
Rule has come under fire said those could be made
from Republicans in up by other types of work.
Congress, who are expect- The industry is more by states, the Department
ed to blister officials at a pessimistic. of Fish and Wildlife would
The National Mining be able to block permits
Saying the coal mining Association, representing even when a mine's poten-
regulations adopted in 1977 coal companies, says the tial effects do not involve
haven’t done enough to rules could cost 29 to 59 endangered species,
protect the environment, percent of current coal min-
the agency wants greater ing jobs. Miners also won’t sion of the Endangered has farmed in Kentucky for
monitoring of the effects of make their average pay - Species Act,” Eckman said. 200 years, said tobacco
mining on streams and now $80,000 in West State officials are resist- money put him through law
stricter standards for per- Virginia - doing other ing the measures, as well. school “But we needed to
transition away from crops
that kill people and produce
food that helps people stay
healthy,” he said.
mit. Kentucky and West “scuttle this faulty rule- The family farm now
Industry lobbyists say Virginia would bear more making and start over.” The grows asparagus.
they expect the rules to be than 80 percent of the loss- Pennsylvania Department
finalized this spring or
summer.
Sen.
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