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

Title of web page- Jobs and Coal in West Virginia: Up and Down?

URL of the web page- http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/wv-coal-economics/

What can you tell about this web page from the URL? It is a blog post for an educational purpose about coal and economics.

Authority

Is there an author of the document or web page?

If yes, who is the author?  Bill Chameides

Are his/her affiliations and qualifications given?

If yes, list them. He is the dean at Duke, the educational place that published it.

Is contact information provided (address, phone

number, email)? On another link you can connect to the environmental group.

Who is the publisher or sponsoring organization

for this web page? Duke, Nicholas school of the environment

Accuracy

Do you trust the information given on the web

page? Is it

reliable and valid? It looks reliable.

Does the web page document its sources? In

other words, does it tell you where the

information comes from?

Yes.

How does the information on the web page

compare with what you already know? It told me a lot that I didn't know and showed a video that I have never seen.

Currency

Does the web page tell you when it was created

and last

revised? Yes.

Are there outdated (dead) links? No.

Coverage

What is the depth and breadth of the information

on the web

page? Good.

Does it contain original information or just links

to other sources? Original information from other sources, but doesn't link them.

Does the information have real value? Explain.

Yes because its very informative and a good article.

Objectivity

What is the web page's purpose or intent? Why

was it created?

To tell you about jobs and coal.

inform/facts/data- yes

 

explain- yes

persuade-no

 

sell/advertise- no

share/disclose-yes

other

Is the information biased? Is it designed to sway

opinion? From whose perspective is it given?
It's the authors perspective and may be biased by his opinion, but he tries to stay away from being too opinionated. He tries to put out a lot of facts and statistics and graphs and what not.