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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">lec gmu butler to pruitt?</font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. I believe it would constitute a serious mistake to have the Energy Summit sponsored</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by NAAG. As i mentioned to your staff, were NAAG involved, the entire mission of the</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summit would be thwarted by<b> General Madigan</b>?s, for example, insisting that pro-industry</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">speakers be offset by<b> Sierra Club acolytes</b>. Indeed General Gansler would in all likelihood</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">try to hijack your Summit. At best you would be left to preside over a debate, rather than</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a call to arms.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. There is no need for participation in order to achieve a semblance of</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bi-partisanship. i have reason to believe that, if invited by you,<b> these Democratic </b></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br class="kix-line-break" /></b></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>would participate: Conway, McDaniel and Phillips</b>. Their presence would be sufficient to</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">squelch any criticism of the Summit's being a partisan jihad.</span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. When then <b>General Pryor </b>created RAGA, his aim was to organize a Republican strike</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">force which would effectively impact public policy </span>In this role, should it pick up some</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">support from the other party so much the better. That said, its mission cannot be diluted</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by entanglement with NAAG. in the energy and natural resources context, this strike force</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ought to take the form of a national state AG litigation team to challenge overreach.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the Summit I would hope a consensus could be reached on the team?s agenda so that,</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like the dalmatian at the proverbial firehouse, it could move out smartly when the alarm</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sounded.</span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lisa Madigan was elected to a fourth term as Illinois attorney general in November 2014.</b> She is the senior most female attorney general in the country and the longest serving attorney general in Illinois history.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recognized for her leadership and integrity, Lisa Madigan has brought a high level of activism to the Office of Attorney General. From her first days in office, she has demonstrated principled leadership, putting policy before politics and focusing her work as the state’s top legal advocate on protecting the people and communities of Illinois. Under Madigan’s direction, her office has collected over $11 billion for the state.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Madigan’s Consumer Protection Division has established a national reputation for aggressively safeguarding consumers from financial fraud and discriminatory lending in mortgage, student, and payday lending. <b>Attorney General Madigan was a lead negotiator in the $25 billion National Mortgage Settlement </b>with the nation’s largest banks, and stemming from those efforts, Madigan delivered over $2.85 billion in relief for Illinois homeowners, communities, and pension funds.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The attorney general’s efforts to protect women, children and seniors has also garnered national attention. She has advocated for stronger laws to protect women and children from sexual violence, and she ushered a bill through the Illinois legislature that made the state the first in the country to mandate testing sexual assault evidence kits. The attorney general also leads a statewide task force to investigate online child exploitation, and she has championed tougher sanctions against sexual predators. Madigan also has increased protections for nursing home residents, including a bill that allows cameras and monitoring devices in residents’ rooms.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Madigan created the first-ever Public Access Counselor and strengthened the state’s sunshine laws, and in her continued efforts to crack down on public corruption and government misconduct, Madigan created a Public Integrity Unit to investigate fraud, waste and abuse.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorney General Madigan has successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. <b>She regularly testifies before Congress on mortgage and student lending</b>, data breaches and data security, the national rape kit testing backlog, and consumer issues including, telephone bill cramming, unsafe children’s products, and natural gas pricing. The U.S. State Department appointed her to serve on the U.S. delegation before the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review to discuss state-level human rights issues.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before her election as attorney general, Madigan served in the Illinois Senate and worked as a litigator for a Chicago law firm. Prior to becoming an attorney, she worked as a teacher and community advocate, developing after-school programs to help kids stay away from drugs and gangs. Madigan also volunteered as a high school teacher in South Africa during apartheid.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 25.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Madigan earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. 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</font></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Attorney General is the state's chief legal officer and is responsible for protecting the public interest of the state and its people.</font></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The job of the Attorney General is to:</font></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Advocate </strong>on behalf of all of the people of Illinois;</font></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Legislate </strong>with members of the General Assembly for new laws; and</font></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Litigate </strong>to ensure state laws are followed and respected.</font></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Attorney General provides services that cover a broad range of issues, reaching every corner of Illinois.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protecting Consumers</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protecting consumers and businesses that have been victimized by fraud, deception or unfair competition is one of the primary functions of the Attorney General. The office receives approximately 25,000 consumer complaints each year, most commonly concerning motor vehicles and home repair.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/women/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advocating for Women</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Attorney General advocates for an end to domestic violence and sexual assault, offers numerous services to victims of violent crime, and awards grants to domestic violence and sexual assault service providers throughout Illinois.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/communities/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keeping Communities Safe</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Attorney General works with law enforcement agencies at the state and local level to keep families and children safe in their communities from dangers ranging from sex offenders to methamphetamine.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/seniors/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advocating for Older Citizens</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Attorney General works to protect the rights and safety of Illinois' older citizens, who are often targeted by scam artists and abusers. The office is equipped to respond to the special needs of older citizens, including those related to consumer fraud, abuse and neglect, financial exploitation, veterans' rights and health care concerns.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/children/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Safeguarding Children</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keeping children safe and healthy is a priority of the Attorney General. The office works on many fronts to reduce sexual assault, advocate for after school and community safety programs, and educate children and parents on various safety issues, including Internet safety and teen dating violence.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/rights/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defending Your Rights</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorney General Madigan is committed to defending the rights of all the people of Illinois. Bureaus within the office are dedicated to specifically protecting civil, labor and employment, disability and veterans rights.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/environment/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preserving the Environment</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the Attorney General's principal responsibilities to public health and safety is protecting our environment. In addition to prosecuting violators of the state's environmental protection laws, the Attorney General protects agricultural producers, an essential part of Illinois' economic vitality.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/victims/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Helping Crime Victims</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Office of the Attorney General has made it a priority to provide services that help victims of violent crime meet their challenges and regain some peace of mind.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/government/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ensuring Open and Honest Government</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Office of the Attorney General is committed to a free and open government supported by free and open exchange of information, as set forth in such laws as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Open Meetings Act (OMA).</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/charities/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Building Better Charities</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Attorney General works in close contact with the state's charitable organizations to ensure they have the tools necessary to follow the law and, in turn, help those in need.</font></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/methnet/index.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MethNet</font></a></h3><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Office of the Attorney General created MethNet to share information about the methamphetamine crisis in Illinois, and to coordinate our collective efforts to address the crisis.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><div class="print-content"><div id="node-911455" class="node node-story view-mode-print clearfix" about="/education/pro-coal-kids-pages-pulled-government-site-public-pressure-increases" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="position: relative;"><div class="headline"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pro-Coal Kids' Pages Pulled from Government Site as Public Pressure Increases</font></h1></div><div class="the_body body_education clearfix"><div class="story-date"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-10-18T05:00:00-07:00">October 18, 2013</span></span></span></span> </em> | </font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The website sections were supposed to educate children about energy, but had been <a class="external-link" href="http://www.salon.com/2013/09/28/time_to_come_clean_about_coal_quinn_partner/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">widely denounced</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> because they focused on misleading pro-coal messages.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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 <a href="http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/09/04/pro-coal-school-curriculum-on-the-rocks-in-illinois/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">determined</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span> that the curriculum, including the website, was "biased towards a positive image of coal."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As pressure increased on the department to take action, staff members initially claimed that they were <a class="external-link" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/when-will-illinois-stop-p_b_3833998.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">too broke to fix the problem</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span>. Then the pages disappeared from the site on Monday. Earlier screen shots show sections called "Education" and "Kid's Site," neither of which was visible when YES! checked the DCEO site [this week].</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is a victory for our children and schools," said Sam Stearns, a former coal miner who helped to organize for the site to be changed, "and a first step toward refashioning an energy education program that tells the truth about the health and environmental impacts of coal mining and burning."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the <a href="http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/gov-quinn-stop-lying-to-kids-about-coal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CREDO petition</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span> Stearns launched, along with former country music singer and environmentalist Mark Donham, the two criticized the website's downplay of environmental impacts and safety issues among miners, especially black lung disease.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also singled out the use of a cartoon figure that told children that land reclamation efforts after strip-mining return the land "the way it was or better than before mining."</font></p><dl class="image-inline captioned"><dt><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="Coal education screen shot." height="192" src="http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/grassroots-groups-force-illinois-to-pull-the-remove-kids-section-from-pro-coal-website/talkingcoalfromsite555.jpg/image" title="Coal education screen shot." width="555" style="border: 0px;" /></font></dt></dl><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along with <b>CREDO,</b> Stearns was joined by national children's groups such as Rethinking Schools, the Zinn Education Project, and the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which led a successful campaign two years ago to expose the "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/education/12coal.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">United States of Energy</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span>," a curriculum published by Scholastic but bankrolled by the American Coal Foundation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's not surprising that a desperate industry would try and win children's hearts and minds," said Josh Golin, the campaign's associate director. "But it's beyond disappointing that state education officials would help dirty coal with this dirty mission."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor at <i>Rethinking Schools</i> magazine and co-director of the Zinn Education Project, found the outcome encouraging.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They can only get away with this because people haven't demanded that it stop," he said. "Now, they have."</font></p></div><div class="big_story_tools_bottom_container"><div class="talk_box"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="small" /></font></div></div><div class="story_tools_bottom"><div class="text-size"><div class="story_tools_email"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="story_tools_share"><div class="story_tools_social_buttons"><div class="tags"><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See more stories tagged with:</font></em><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/education-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">education</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/environment-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">environment</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/coal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">coal</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/rethinking-schools" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">rethinking schools</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item even"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/illinois-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">illinois</a> <span class="print-footnote">[12]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/amrican-coal-foundation" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Amrican Coal Foundation</a> <span class="print-footnote">[13]</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="comment_button"><div class="print-footer" style="text-align: center;"><hr class="print-hr" style="border: 0px; height: 1px; width: 1631px; color: rgb(158, 158, 158); background-color: rgb(158, 158, 158);" /><div class="print-source_url"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Source URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/pro-coal-kids-pages-pulled-government-site-public-pressure-increases" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://www.alternet.org/education/pro-coal-kids-pages-pulled-government-site-public-pressure-increases</a></font></div><div class="print-links"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Links:</strong>
[1] http://www.yesmagazine.org
[2] http://www.alternet.org/authors/jeff-biggers
[3] http://www.salon.com/2013/09/28/time_to_come_clean_about_coal_quinn_partner/
[4] http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/09/04/pro-coal-school-curriculum-on-the-rocks-in-illinois/
[5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/when-will-illinois-stop-p_b_3833998.html
[6] http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/gov-quinn-stop-lying-to-kids-about-coal
[7] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/education/12coal.html
[8] http://www.alternet.org/tags/education-0
[9] http://www.alternet.org/tags/environment-0
[10] http://www.alternet.org/tags/coal
[11] http://www.alternet.org/tags/rethinking-schools
[12] http://www.alternet.org/tags/illinois-0
[13] http://www.alternet.org/tags/amrican-coal-foundation
[14] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>