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gust, the Interior Department’s Of ce of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement said of cials were reconsidering grants over $100,000 largely for budget reasons.
Yet academies spokesman William Kearney said the mining study was the only project stopped, with the group having ve others underway.
In a 2016 study in the journal Environmental Science & Policy, Indiana University professor Michael Hendryx examined data from 1968 to 2014 and found higher death rates in 37 central Appalachian coun- ties with mountaintop mining than those without it, after adjusting for age, poverty, smoking, obesity and available doctors.
In a 2010 study in Geospatial Health, Hendryx found that West Virginia residents near mining sites had higher death rates from lung and other cancers after controlling for similar variables. Coal contains known carcinogens, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, nickel and beryllium, he wrote.
In a 2012 study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Yale’s Dr. Jonathan Borak found fault with some of Hendryx’s studies and concluded the mortality rates in central Appalachia were related to cultural factors: poverty, rural location, education, diet, smoking and obesity, but “not per se” to coal mining pollution.
Borak’s work was funded by the National Mining Association, but he said that didn’t affect his conclu- sions. Like Hendryx, he presented his information to the National Academies, whose study he thinks was stopped for political reasons.
“I think the interference with the scienti c process for political reasons is lamentable,” Borak said.
Friday’s Scores By The Associated Press
PREP FOOTBALL
Class 11AA Championship: Pierre 24, Harrisburg 21
Class 11B Championship: Sioux Falls Christian 27, Bridgewater-Emery 12 ___
South Dakota State sti es UC Irvine in 65-54 win
BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — David Jenkins Jr. scored 16 points, Mike Daum and Reed Tellinghuisen each had 12 points, and South Dakota State pulled away from UC Irvine 65-54 Friday night.
Daum made a 3 and a layup with 12:18 to go during a 17-8 Jackrabbits run to break a 31-all score. Eyassu Worku, Elston Jones and Evan Leonard made layups to bring UC Irvine within 49-47, but Tellinghuisen and Daum made back-to-back 3s.
South Dakota State was 14 for 35 from beyond the 3-point line. Defensively, the Jackrabbits forced 18 UC Irvine turnovers that led to 18 points.
Worku led the Anteaters with 12 points but missed 13 of 18 shots. Leonard nished with 10 points and Jonathan Galloway grabbed 13 rebounds. UC Irvine shot just 5 for 19 (26 percent) from 3-point range and 5 for 12 (42) from the free-throw line.
Volunteers help South Dakota school get new gym oor By SAMUEL BLACKSTONE, Rapid City Journal
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Next time you step atop a wooden gymnasium oor, peer down at the multi- tudes of slender wooden planks beneath your feet. Then, imagine removing them, one by one, sanding down the staples holding them together, one by one, and reinstalling them all in a new gym, one by one.
For a group of volunteers with St. Paul’s Lutheran School and Church, imagination isn’t necessary.
Last March, the school placed the winning $5 bid for gymnasium equipment housed within the former National American University building, across the street from the Pennington County Courthouse. Along with the gymnasium’s wooden oor, four basketball hoops, two digital scoreboards, a digital sound system