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B
rent Malley is a coal miner who
says it's his duty to be a steward
of the environment, especially
among an escalating fi ght over coal in
northwest Colorado.
The 37-year-old plant operator works
at the Colowyo Mine near Craig, a
coal-mining town in Mo• at County, tar-
geted by the activist group WildEarth
Guardians intent on banning coal.
Malley said his approximately 220
co-workers and the townspeople are
speaking out against a lawsuit generated
by activists that threatens to shut down
the mine, which is a major source of
energy for the state and has won awards
for creating habitats and reclaiming
mined land.
The town is one of many places fi nding
itself at the center of dialogue on environ-
mental responsibility as Pope Francis'
encyclical Laudato Si': On the Care of Our
Common Home was o† cially released
June 18.
"What I read was (the pope) thinks
we should be good stewards
of the earth," said Malley, who
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Laudato Si' debate
hits close to home
Craig's Colowyo Mine is at the
center of the conversation over
environmental responsibility,
heightened by the release of Pope
Francis' encyclical on integral
ecology. The mine, left, supplies
power to 1 million people in
Colorado and Wyoming. After the
land in mined, it is reclaimed and
turned into a natural habitat, like
the one pictured here. PHOTO BY COLOWYO
COAL COMPANY L.P.
