ApocaDocs: Pro-Coal Kids' Pages Pulled from Government Site as Public Pressure Increases

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Posted Tue Oct 15 2013: from Yes! Magazine:


	Pro-Coal Kids' Pages Pulled from Government Site as Public Pressure Increases http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1381855880 The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has removed coal-related educational sections from its website, less than two weeks after the launch of a grassroots campaign demanding that the pages be taken down. The website sections were supposed to educate children about energy, but had been widely denounced because they focused on misleading pro-coal messages. It wasn't just environmentalists who objected to the way Illinois was talking about coal to kids. Last month, a state-commissioned evaluation of the Illinois coal education program determined that the curriculum, including the website, was "biased towards a positive image of coal."

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