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Peabody energy still bothered with anti-strip mining protest song
2015-07-12 11:21:43| Energy - Topix.net
More than 40 years after it was first recorded, a strip-mining protest song still rankles one of the nation's largest coal mining companies. Peabody Energy Corp., which operates major mines in Wyoming, asked a federal judge in Casper to strike lyrics of singer-songwriter John Prine's 1971 song "Paradise" from a federal lawsuit filed by a pair of environmental activists who claim they were jailed for demonstrating at a company shareholders meeting.
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Category:Energy and Environment