COAL CALLED.

This article reveals the plan of U.S. activists to continue its protest efforts against the coal industry in 2008. In Montana, green group Earthjustice is planning to appeal a decision to allow the construction of a new 250-megawatt plant. Regulators are also playing a role. In Washington and Kansas, state authorities have banned any new coal power plants, and city legislators in Donegal Township in Pennsylvania have outlawed mining in the area. The legislation also strips corporations of their usual rights while operating in the township and forbids them to contribute money towards local politicians' electoral campaigns.