West Virginia Sues Federal Government Over Mining Restrictions

We do need more nuclear power plants. What we need to do is build them near coal and natural gas producing states. There is the Fischer-Tropsch process, which turns coal and natural gas into synthetic gasoline. This process has been around for many years. With inexpensive nuclear power, it would be cost effective. Railway cars and trucks would carry off the liquid fuel instead of coal. Put centralized scrubbers in these plants. Those scrubbed pollutants, primarily sulfur, would be available in high concentrations as to be a valuable industrial product all it's own. That sulfur byproduct at the hypothetical nuclear-powered coal liquification plant, becomes sulfuric acid. This acid is the most important non-fuel industrial chemical known to man! We have hundreds of years of coal and natural gas. There is no reason for dependence on foreign oil!

Regulations are in place to protect the citizens and workers not the companies who have a terrible saftey record. Mining is a very dangerous business and miners tend to run in families. My family have been miners both in the UK and here for over a one hundred years, its the regulations and unions that have protected miners not the companies

An excellent example of the lack of cooperation between federal agencies, state governments and industry. Whine, complain and fight the regulation - instead of working with industry and federal agencies to develop and implement a solution. I have no doubt that some mining companies stopped activities, rather than spending money to implement methods and controls to comply with the regulations. You would think that the federal government would include some funding for companies to use to comply with new regulations...

Has the Federal Government ever had dozens of law suits against it from dozens of States at one time like this in the history of the Federal Government? Seems like States are fighting Socialism tooth and nail.