[TheRealVille]

The study makes no claim about whether coal is being mined cleaner today than in the past or not. Do you even read the stuff that you post? I don't think that I will ever be so out of touch with mining that I would claim that coal mined in the western U.S. has a high sulfur content. Nor will I ever make the mistake of believing that eliminating surface mining would just result in the same coal being deep mined by retrained surface coal miners. Facts seem to elude you on a pretty consistent basis on a staggering number of subjects.

I didn't say it wasn't cleaner than in the past, just that it's still putting harmful junk in the water. What the study does say is that the junk is in there, though. If you will re-read my post, you will see that I said I wasn't sure on the high sulfur rate of western coal, and that I was only going by hearsay. You trying to dance? Still, are you saying the surveys are flawed, and that selenium and other junk isn't getting in our water supply at amounts high enough to cause companies to spend millions cleaning up their runoff?