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Federal mine safety officials are looking into a comment by one of its Kentucky-based inspectors on the social networking site, Facebook, that proclaimed, "Hang a tree-hugger today."
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David Cooper, an activist who opposes mountaintop removal coal mining, circulated via email the comment by Terry Phillips, who Louviere identified as a mine inspector based in Pikeville, on the Facebook page for the pro-coal Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security. Both that page, and a copy of Phillip's public page on Facebook, were published on this environmental website.
A man who identified himself as Phillips returned my call and said he was sorry. "I was kidding around," Phillips said. "It's caused me a lot of problems. I wished I had never done it."
Will Vicki Smith of the AP still try to pretend that the nutty rhetoric is coming equally from both sides?
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