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Read All About Jack Spadaro And Coal's Corrupt Influence On The Bush Administration
Check out this month's Audubon Magazine with the Ted Williams article "Sludge Slinging...no matter how hard it tries, the Bush administration cannot silence one of the nation's leading experts on coal mining's poisonous legacy."
PLEASE ALSO READ: Covering Up an Environmental Disaster Larger Than Exxon Valdez Excerpt: "I had never seen anything so corrupt and lawless in my entire career, what I saw regarding interference with a federal investigation of the most serious environmental disaster in the history of the Eastern United States," Spadaro told 60 Minutes.
Tonight, Wednesday April 28 from 7-9:00 p.m.: Coal sludge ponds and government regulation: an evening with Jack Spadaro at the Lexington campus of the University of Kentucky, Old Student Center, Room 357. A panel discussion with Nina and Mick McCoy, SAVE, Martin County; editorial writer Jamie Luecke of the Lexington Herald-Leader; and Tom Fitzgerald, KY Resource Council. Presented by UK Appalachian Studies, UK Environmental Studies and EKU Appalachian Center.
As featured recently on CBS "60 Minutes," the firing of mining safety official, Jack Spadaro, is receiving national and international attention. His pending lawsuit argues that he is being targeted as a whistleblower about government abuses in the regulation of coal mining. In 2001, Spadaro resigned from the federal investigation of the massive Martin County, KY coal sludge spill, citing concerns about cover-ups and political corruption. Come find out for yourself, what the facts are about this important case!
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