UPDATE 2 p.m.: The body has reportedly been found located near Pizza Hut and I-70 in a field close to McDonald’s.

CLARK CO., Ill.—There’s been yet another body found in Clark County, which is becoming famous for being the place to dispose of them, apparently.

The body found is being termed “skeletal remains” by authorities.

Officials have only released that the remains were found in an area in or around Casey; nothing more specific has been issued.

The news of the remains came on the heels of a body being discovered in a house where a fire had mostly consumed the residence, this in Casey; and because a death investigation has been opened on both cases, there was quite a bit of confusion that ensued when the announcements were made. However, the skeletal remains are a separate incident from the Casey house fire.

Regular readers will recall that there have been a couple of bodies found in or around Clark over the past years, including this one most recently. Apparently the interstate passing through makes it a main thoroughfare for those who want to dispose of the evidence of their crimes.

If we get more on this, we’ll bring it….keep checking back.

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January 14, 2014

Erick and Marlise Munoz with their son, Mateo. Marlise Munoz/Facebook
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The husband of a brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman has sued the hospital keeping her on life support against his wishes.

Erick Munoz filed a lawsuit in state district court in Fort Worth, where his wife, Marlise Munoz, has been on life support since he found her unconscious in their North Texas home on Nov. 26. She was 14 weeks pregnant at the time. Her family says the exact cause of her condition isn’t known, though a blood clot is a possibility.

Erick and Marlise Munoz, both paramedics, had seen life and death up close and he previously told The Associated Press that his wife was clear with him: If she fell into a condition like this, pull life support and let her die.

John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, however, has refused to take Marlise Munoz off machines, citing a state law the hospital says requires it to continue treating a pregnant patient.

Munoz’s lawsuit says that law doesn’t apply because Marlise Munoz is legally and medically dead. The condition of her fetus is unclear.

“Marlise Munoz is dead, and she gave clear instructions to her husband and family — Marlise was not to remain on any type of artificial ‘life sustaining treatment,’ ventilators or the like,” the lawsuit said. “There is no reason JPS should be allowed to continue treatment on Marlise Munoz’s dead body, and this court should order JPS to immediately discontinue such.”

The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office, which is representing the public hospital, said its attorneys were reviewing the lawsuit and had no immediate response Tuesday. Hospital spokeswoman J.R. Labbe previously has said hospital officials stand by their position: “This is not a difficult decision for us. We are following the law.”

The Texas Advance Directives Act reads in part that, “A person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient.”

But experts say the hospital is incorrectly applying the statute because Munoz is brain-dead and beyond any chance of recovery.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 15, 2014

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will begin periodically flying a large helicopter at extremely low altitudes over Baltimore for years to come to detect background radiation in preparation for a nuclear attack.

Beginning this week, the federal agency will use a “massive helicopter” from the National Nuclear Security Administration to test for naturally occurring radiation by flying at an altitude of just 150 feet.

“That is low. That’s like ten stories on a normal building so that’s not very high at all,” Captain Jeff Long told CBS Baltimore, adding that the chopper is much larger and louder than normal helicopters.

The DHS says it is conducting the tests so authorities can respond more quickly in the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear attack.

“If sometime in the future you have a reason to be looking for something radiological, it’s very necessary to have the original background,” said Joseph Krol of the National Nuclear Security Administration.

The tests begin today but will continue “for the next few years,” according to the report.

Given that static atmospheric radiation detectors which are far cheaper and less labor intensive than flying large helicopters are already being used in major cities, some will question whether the low flying choppers are being used for a dual purpose.

Is the low flying chopper part of preparations for a potential worsening of the Fukushima crisis? Similar questions were asked after the Department of Health and Human Services ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, although an official denied any link to a potential meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear plant.

Yesterday it was also announced that 19 different government and academic bodies would begin testing sea kelp forests across California in an effort to detect radiation from Fukushima.

Libertarians wary of big government will also see low-flying DHS helicopters as another visceral reminder of the federal agency’s increasingly onerous growth, sending a message to the public that Big Brother is watching more closely than ever before.

The increasing use of low flying helicopters in unannounced law enforcement and military exercises has prompted warnings that Americans are being psychologically indoctrinated to accept a militarized police state. In 2012, Miami residents were shocked to be awoken by a military exercise in the middle of the night which involved helicopters, fighter jets, along with simulated gunfire and grenades.

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Jonathan Mattise and Ben Nuckols

Jan 14, 2014

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Downtown businesses and restaurants reopened Tuesday following last week’s chemical spill, but many people waited yet another day for officials to tell them their tap water was safe.

So far, about 39 percent of West Virginia American Water’s customers have been allowed to use their water again after a chemical spilled into the Elk River on Thursday, state officials said.

More than 200 restaurants have reopened where the ban has been lifted, said Amy Shuler Goodwin, a spokeswoman for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, and all hospitals but one had running water by Tuesday, Tomblin said. The exception was Boone Memorial Hospital in Madison, the governor said.

There were still some areas on the edges of the water system with chemical levels exceeding the acceptable amount, said West Virginia National Guard Adjutant Gen. James A. Hoyer.

Schools in all four counties in the affected areas were to remain closed Wednesday, Tomblin said. He did not provide a timeline for school to resume.

The emergency closed schools, restaurants and businesses because they, along with about 300,000 residents, were told not to drink, shower or even wash clothes with the contaminated water.

Matthew Davis said his neighborhood was still waiting for the ban to be lifted. After rinsing off at a nearby creek last week, he finally enjoyed a hot shower Tuesday at his fiancee’s house 30 minutes away.

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As a follow up to the big story we brought you in the December-January edition, our correspondent traveled out to the Rocky Branch Road area of Saline County after calls from residents of Cottage Township alerted us to activity going on out there…activity that residents were told wouldn’t be taking place until the permitting process was concluded.

The public hearing held at SIC in early December was all about input on the expansion of mining in the township by Peabody, who said that they would weigh everyone’s input with the pressing need of moving forward with the mine expansion.

However, it at least APPEARS there’s a little movement, without benefit of advising the residents (after they were told they WOULD be notified of Peabody’s decision), and that’s the subject of our next Read the Lead, “Logging already begun on Rocky Branch Road“:

Photo taken Saturday, January 4, 2014

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SALINE CO.—The hearing held in December at Southeastern Illinois College on the topic of Peabody Energy closing Rocky Branch Road was apparently nothing but a smokescreen in order to give residents the appearance that their voice mattered.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources held the hearing to allow the public the opportunity to give their input on why Peabody should not be allowed to deforest and mine the Cottage Township area, but it now appears that hearing was not enough to stop the giant company from doing as they please.

Disclosure received reports that Peabody had brought in skidders to the area that will be mined near Berry Hill in Saline County a little over two weeks after the date of the hearing (December 12, 2013). When Disclosure heard this, contact was made with residents who live close to the area, and it was discovered that logging and deforesting had already begun. The problem is, according to locals who have spoken to the company and the IDNR, Peabody has not been given a permit to start such activities.

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By Dave Boyer

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The Washington Times

President Obama vowed Tuesday to take more executive action when he deems it necessary to get his agenda enacted and bypass a reluctant Congress.

“I’ve got a pen, and … I’ve got a phone,” Mr. Obama said at his first Cabinet meeting of the year at the White House. “And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward” to help middle-class families.

“We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need,” he added.

But GOP House Speaker John A. Boehner told reporters Tuesday that it is Congress that is waiting — waiting for the president to cooperate on several bills that would create more jobs, after a dismal report on last month’s weak job growth nationally. He said Mr. Obama should use his phone to call Congress.

“The fact is, the president’s taken his eye off the ball — taken his eye off of the issue of jobs,” said Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican. “If the president’s serious about wanting to improve the prospects for our economy — and higher wages and better jobs — all he has to do is pick up the phone and call Democrat leaders in the Senate and ask them to move one of these dozens of bills that we’ve sent over there that would help put Americans back to work.”

The president said his Oval Office phone “allows me to convene Americans from every walk of life — nonprofits, businesses, the private sector, universities — to try to bring more and more Americans together around what I think is a unifying theme, making sure that this is a country where if you work hard, you can make it.”

“And so one of the things that I’m going to be talking to my Cabinet about is how do we use all the tools available to us, not just legislation, in order to advance a mission that I think unifies all Americans: the belief that everybody’s got a big responsibility, everybody’s got to work hard, but if you do, that you can support a family and … meet the kinds of obligations that you have to yourself and your family but also to your communities and to your nation,” Mr. Obama said.

As an example of his emphasis on unilateral action, last week Mr. Obama announced the creation of five new “promise zones” in various cities to fight poverty with the help of federal tax breaks. And on Wednesday, Mr. Obama will travel to North Carolina to promote a new public-private partnership to boost high-tech manufacturing jobs.

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UPDATE 9:35 P.M.

HELICOPTER HAS ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL IN LAWRENCEVILLE, ILL.

LAWRENCE CO., Ill.—We’re learning of an incident in Lawrenceville St. Francisville wherein a man has been alleged to have bitten off part of his girlfriend’s face, then left the scene, after the two got into a fight.

The cannibalistic guy is reportedly none other than local felon Tommy Shoulders, 38, of Lawrenceville and other addresses.

Emergency medical services were called to the scene shortly after the injury was inflicted, and report that the woman, whose name is not being released yet, is suffering from significant blood loss. The woman’s father called the report in. She was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and a helicopter has been called for her; destination hospital is unknown at this time.

Shoulders reportedly left the scene before officials could respond, and is supposed to be in a 2000 white two-door Pontiac Sunfire. Authorities are looking for him; if you know of his whereabouts, call your local law enforcement agency. More as we get it; keep checking back.

For those of you who like to listen to the day’s headline stories, here’s Lyndi with your Nightly NewsCap for the evening of Wednesday, January 15, 2014!

Topics covered include: Another body found in Clark County, Ill.; fire at Mike Dudley residence shames Harrisburg city officials; and the water update from West Virginia.

JACKSON CO., Ill.—It appears authorities in two states believe the woman whose body was found Tuesday south of Carbondale was murdered.

The body, identified yesterday as that of Marsha Ann Brown, 40, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was found on Potters Road off U.S. 51 south of Carbondale at about 9:40 Tuesday morning (January 14, 2014) by a passerby, Ethan Hall of Makanda, according to press information from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.

Brown’s body was found in some brush off an embankment a few feet off the road; she was clad in a pink jacket, jeans and tennis shoes, and authorities believe she had only been there less than 24 hours. Cause of death has not been released, although an autopsy was conducted yesterday in Jackson County.

However, it’s been confirmed that Cape Girardeau officials have an active warrant for the arrest of a suspect connected to Brown’s death within their jurisdiction. While there’s been no name released, authorities have confirmed that the suspect “could be considered dangerous.”

More as we get it.

January 15, 2014

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DENVER –  Colorado lawmakers delayed a vote Wednesday on a bill to increase legal protections for reporters and their sources in Colorado.

The bill from Colorado Springs Republican Sen. Bernie Herpin would make it harder for courts to compel reporters to reveal sources by raising legal standards to enforce subpoenas.

Herpin said he brought the proposal forward because of the case of New York-based Fox News reporter Jana Winter, who was pressured to divulge who gave her information about the 2012 Aurora theater shootings.

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Jason Howerton

Jan. 15, 2014

theblaze.com

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On the surface, John Filippidis seems to be just the kind of responsible gun owner who should carry a concealed firearm. He’s a family man, small business owner and taxpayer who takes the responsibility of gun ownership seriously.

However, he’s now considering canceling his concealed carry permit after what happened to him while driving through Maryland with his wife and three kids a few weeks ago.

According to Filippidis and his wife, Kally, they noticed an unmarked patrol car tailing them while traveling for Christmas and a family wedding in Woodridge, N.J. He claims the police car stayed with them for ten minutes.

“We weren’t speeding. In fact, lots of other cars were whizzing past,” Filippidis told the Tampa Tribune.

Eventually, the car’s emergency lights came on and he pulled the car over. The officer was reportedly with the Transportation Authority Police, “Maryland’s version of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority,” according to the report.

It should be noted that what happened next is the account of Filippidis and his wife. The Maryland Transportation Authority Police declined to comment, pending an investigation. However, Filippidis says he has received apologies from the officer’s captain and the MTAP internal affairs captain.

The officer reportedly asked Filippidis for his license and registration before returning to his patrol car. When he returned, the officer ordered the father out of his vehicle and told him to hook his thumbs behind his back and spread his feet.

Filippidis says he keeps a “palm-sized Kel-Tec .38 semiautomatic” pistol in only two places: in the right-hand pocket of his jeans or at home locked in a safe. On this particular day, it was in the safe.

“You own a gun,” the officer reportedly said. “Where is it?”

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Saline County, IL — Locals in Cottage Township in Saline County recently contacted Disclosure, reporting that Peabody Coal had already begun the logging process on the proposed mine area before they were issued a permit. Now, that activity has been put to and end, and Peabody Coal has been cited for surface mining without a permit by Illinois officials.

In late December, Cottage Township residents reported that logging equipment had been brought into the proposed mining area, and that as of yet no notification had been provided that permits had been issued from the Illinois Department of natural resources. On January 4th, Disclosure reported to the area of the logging, and gained photographic evidence of the logging as it was being conducted.

Now, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has issued Peabody Arclar Mining LLC a citation for pre-surface mining activity, and ordered a stop to the activity. The coal company has also been forced to take action to prevent damages to the land which has been disturbed by the logging activity.

Monday, officials learned of a new interpretation of the activity, handed down by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, and immediately issued the the citation, as well as the order to stop. The new interpretation of the activity came as a result of complaints issued to the Feds by locals and the environmental group, the Sierra Club.

The Sierra Club has joined with local residents to oppose the mining of Cottage Township by Peabody Coal, and has made a large point of highlighting the fact that endangered species of animals live in the area which was being logged in preparation of the mining. This is one of the points of review in the pending application for mining permits. Now, Peabody will not only have to fight that point in the application review, but will also have to answer for their actions, as the IDNR now will consider the citation in their decision.

Jan. 14, 2014

By Alyssa Newcomb, Maria Nikias and Clayton Sandell

ABC NEWS

A middle school student opened fire in his gym with a shotgun today and critically wounded two students in Roswell, N.M., according to authorities.

Scene from the Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico

The injured were a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy who were “simply sitting in their gym waiting to go to class,” New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said. The shooting occurred shortly before class was to begin at Berrendo Middle School.

The Eastern New Mexico Medical Center confirmed it treated two patients, who were then air lifted to the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, located about 175 miles from the middle school.

A spokesperson for UMC said the boy, who the governor said was 12, is out of surgery and is listed in critical condition. The girl, 13, is also being treated at the hospital and is listed in serious condition, according to the spokesperson. A school staff member suffered a minor injury and declined treatment.

The names of the shooting victims have not been released.

PHOTOS: The Scene Outside Berrendo Middle School

Odiee Carranza, an eighth grade student, told the Associated Press a boy bumped into her as he rushed toward the gym and apologized to her. When the boy entered the gym, Carranza said she saw him pull a gun out of a band instrument case and begin shooting.

She said he shot another boy twice in the face and shoot a girl in the arm.

“Then he shot up in the sky, then dropped the gun, and then some teacher grabbed the kid that had the gun,” Carranza told the AP.

Authorities said the weapon was a shotgun and the shooter was a 12-year-old seventh grader.

The governor said a school staffer and an off-duty New Mexico State Police lieutenant who was dropping his child off at the school were instrumental in helping to end the active shooter situation before more people were injured.

New Mexico State Police Chief Pete Kassetas said by the time his deputies arrived around 8: 11 a.m., “the weapon, which we believe is a shot gun, was laid on the ground.”

The alleged shooter was taken into custody and the chief said it is believed he acted alone.

Kassetas did not disclose a possible motive, but said investigators are “looking at social media outlets and the different forms of communication these kids use to talk to each other.”

After the scene was secure this morning, students were bused from the school to Roswell Mall where police said parents will be allowed to pick up their children. Authorities asked parents to stay away from the school during the investigation.

The Roswell incident is the latest school shooting to rattle the country. It comes one month after a gunman open fire at Arapahoe High School in Colorado.

Police said Karl Pierson, 18, who was armed with a shotgun, machete and had Molotov cocktails in his backpack, was intent on seeking “revenge” on the school’s debate team instructor who had dropped him from the team.

Pierson came upon senior Claire Davis, 17, while looking for his intended target. He critically wounded the high school senior before police said he took his own life.

Davis died on Dec. 21 from her injuries.

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January 16, 2014

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The House’s passage of a $1.1 trillion spending bill Wednesday that dictates the budgets for all federal agencies may be a desperately needed lifeline for the light bulb.

The bill includes a prohibition on funding for “the Administration’s onerous ‘light bulb’ standard,” as Appropriations Committee chairman Hal Rogers (R., Ky), which had sought to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of ordinary incandescent light bulbs but ultimately spelled the end of the road for the century-old technology.

A portion of that 2007 law, which finally took effect on Jan. 1, mandated that manufacturers improve their light bulbs: 40W bulbs must draw just 10.5W, and 60W bulbs must draw no more than 11W. The result is the effectively a ban: Incandescents simply can’t keep up with those twisty compact fluorescent (CFL) and newer LED bulbs.

But there’s hope for those glass globes yet, however: Citing “a continued public desire for these products,” the Energy and Water Appropriations section of the bill would prohibit funds to implement or enforce the higher efficiency light bulb standards.

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By Holly Yan and Faith Karimi

January 16, 2014

CNN

Photo courtesy businessinsider.com

(CNN) – Dozens of Air Force officers entrusted with maintaining U.S. nuclear missiles are now accused of cheating or turning a blind eye to cheating on a competency test.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The scandal involving 34 Air Force officers at Malmstrom Air Force base in Montana marks the latest trouble for U.S. nuclear forces plagued by problems over the past year.

Here’s a look at other recent cases:

October 2013

A U.S. general who oversaw nuclear weapons was relieved of his duties after he boozed, fraternized with “hot women” and disrespected his hosts during an official visit to Russia, Air Force officials said.

Maj. Gen. Michael Carey led the 20th Air Force responsible for three nuclear wings.

According to an Air Force Inspector General report, Carey bragged loudly about his position as commander of a nuclear force during layover in Switzerland, saying he “saves the world from war every day.”

While in Russia, Carey and an unidentified man walked to a nearby hotel to meet “two foreign national women.” He returned to his Marriott hotel room in the wee hours of the morning. As a result, Carey was 45 minutes late in joining a delegation in a Moscow suburb, according to the report. He attributed the tardiness to jet lag, and said his body clock was out of whack.

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By Michael Holmes

January 15, 2014

CNN

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) – Even in the darkest, deadliest days ofIraq’s war, you’d find people still hopeful it would all work out. That the killings would stop, the bad guys would be routed and a stability of some sort would return.

A US armoured vehicle burns in Baghdad after a bomb attack.
(Photo courtesy of bbc.co.uk)

That the Americans would leave with their Humvees and their private security companies and the country would — perhaps — get on with the freedom the U.S. promised upon Saddam Hussein’s removal.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised as much, and pledged an inclusive system for all. Power-sharing politics and making all Iraqis — Sunni, Shia, Christian — feel they shared national values. Now, there a plenty of Iraqis who believe he had his fingers crossed when he said such things.

Just over two years ago, I watched as the last of 110 or so U.S. military vehicles crossed the border from Iraq and into Kuwait — the same border crossing I’d gone through in at the start of the war in 2003 with a U.S. Marine convoy headed to the Iraqi capital.

I’ve had nearly a dozen trips in between and now here I am, back in Baghdad. The city feels much the same as it did during some of those other trips — and that’s not a good thing. Actually, it feels worse.

The U.S. departure may have ended the war for Americans, but for Iraqis, the violence, the bombs, the shootings and the torrents of blood barely skipped a beat. A lull here and there, periods of what might (for Iraq) pass for stability, but really, the deaths never stopped. More than 8,000 people were killed here last year, mostly innocent civilians, according to the U.N.

The feeling in Baghdad today is one of dread — dreading the next car bomb or suicide attack or assassination.

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TEXAS CITY—A house fire in the tiny community of Texas City, Illinois, just northeast of Eldorado in Saline County and just off U.S. Highway 45, consumed a residence this evening, January 16, 2014.

We are still gathering information on the fire, but officials at the scene have stated their opinion that the home is a total loss.

A coroner’s vehicle was reported at the scene early on, but it appears that it wasn’t there on account of a body, as there was no one injured in the blaze.

Here are some photos; we’ll have an update as soon as we can get it.

Here’s Lyndi coming atcha with the headlines for the evening of Thursday, January 16, 2014, in the Nightly NewsCap!

Topics covered include: Body of murdered woman found in Jackson County identified; last night’s attack on Leah Catt in Lawrence County and Shoulders arrest; and Peabody getting cited for logging in advance of permit issued in Cottage Township.

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January 17, 2014

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A North Texas man is trying to clear his name after he was arrested and cited for allegedly violating a city ordinance for holding a homemade sign warning drivers about speed traps.

Ron Martin, 33, was arrested last October after an officer saw him standing in the median on the Eldorado Parkway in Frisco holding a sign that read “Police ahead,” letting drivers know an officer was waiting at the opposite side of a nearby bridge, MyFoxDFW.com reported.

In the police report, Officer Thomas Mrozinski said he was familiar with Martin and had seen him two other times that month holding the sign in the median. He accused him of trying to interfere with the department’s speed enforcement operations, according to the report.

“I observed a couple cars drive by traveling westbound waving at us,” Mrozinski wrote in the arrest report, WFAA.com reported. “Mr. Martin was observed standing in the center median of the six-lane divided roadway … holding a sign in his right hand up over his shoulders.”

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By Mike Tobin

FoxNews.com

January 16, 2014

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Far below the Appalachian Mountains, in a space barely big enough to stand up straight, Bobby Combs works a job his father and his grandfather worked.

Coal-mining is the highest-paying job available to him in eastern Kentucky. As he skillfully maneuvers a massive machine and rips into a seam of coal, though, Combs wonders if the family tradition ends with him.

“It’s not looking good,” he says, dirt smudging his face.

Coal has come under the crosshairs of the Obama administration in the push to transition to renewable energy sources. Coal mines are burdened with a never-ending stream of federal regulations.

The owner of the mine where Combs works said the cost of getting coal out of the ground has tripled. For him, that means job insecurity.

“It seems like everything on the coal industry is under siege, everything is under attack,” he said.

Many miners, particularly in Appalachia, have labeled the administration’s policies the War on Coal. “I just believe the Obama administration has taken a huge impact on the coal industry and Appalachia. Anymore, you just never know from day to day if you are going to have a job or not,” said miner Phillip Conley.

When he was a candidate, President Obama made it clear he was not a friend to coal.

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