EcoWatch: After waging a tireless six-year campaign in the historic Spoon River region of central Illinois, residents in the small town of Canton are celebrating a state hearing officer`s proposed denial of a permit to a rogue coal company for a devastating strip mine.
While an appeal is still possible, this might be the most symbolic victory against Big Coal in 2012.
With the heartland facing a brutal surge in coal mining production, as operations shift westward from Appalachia, the seeming defeat of…

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