Brown coal mining limits in North Bohemia within the currently demarcated limits, e.g. Horní Jiřetín and Černice. This article focuses almost exclusively on the limits as they apply to mines in the Mostecko region roughly between the towns of Most and Litvínov operated by Czech Coal. During the course of the 20th century, the North Bohemian Basin, an area of over 1100 km2, was heavily mined from Kadaň to Ústí nad Labem for brown coal for burning in a large number of thermal power stations, electrical power stations and factories. In the 1970s and 1980s, the mining increased on a massive scale, and because of the expansion
A Scientific Support for Darwinism case, as well as announce the results in a press release. The petition was not completed sufficiently early to submit it as part of an "amicus curae" brief for the Dover case. However, if the case was to go to the US Supreme Court, the petition could have been submitted as an "amicus" brief at that time. R. Joe Brandon emphasized that this "Four Day Petition" did not mean that scientific issues are settled by majority vote. What Brandon maintains is that this is an indication of the level of scientific consensus that accepts evolution as a viable established scientific