Authority

 
Issue: Are environmental regulations the cause of decreased coal production in West Virginia?

Sited: "Pollution Issues"
 

 Authority: Who are the authors, or who is responsible? What gives them their authority or expertise?         
                        This site has no author listed for the article but I can tell the site is owered by JRanks and is the title of the site is "Pollution Issues". However, this site does have a bio  that will help to me to see who is sponsoring this page. 

Bibliography:
ASTM. "Standard Classification of Coals by Rank," Standard D388. In Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol. 05.05. New York.
ASTM. "Standard Terminology Relating to Megascopic Description of Coal and Coal Seams and Microscopic Description and Analysis of Coal," Standard D2796. In Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol. 05.05. New York.

 Internet surces:  

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Clean Air Act of 1970" and "1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act." Available from http://www.epa.gov .

U.S. Office of Surface Mining. Public Law 95-87, "The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA)." Available from http://www.osmre.gov/smcra.htm .

Heinz H. Damberger

From this I can now tell where the infromation has been pulled from, and now I can check the creditability of the information. I have found out that JRank is an online encyclopedia that we use to power different pages to credit work.