Beshear On Environmental Naughty List

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Martin Mudd, a Lexington teacher and member of the environmental group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, dressed in a Santa suit Monday to deliver  lumps of coal for Christmas to Governor Steve Beshear and lawmakers, including Democratic Representative Jim Gooch of Providence, chairman of the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee. Mudd says they were on his naughty list because they have done nothing to halt mountaintop removal mining. Beshear and Gooch have been proponents of the mining industry. Mudd and a handful of other environmentalists sang anti-mining songs that were remakes of traditional carols. One remake included the lyrics: "Go tell it on the mountain. We wish we could but it ain't there."