EPA turns the lights on mountaintop removal

This post originally appeared at TheNation.com . The Environmental Protection Agency made good on its promise today to assert greater scrutiny and “use the best science and follow the letter of the law” with regard to controversial mountaintop removal mining permits in the Appalachian coalfields. In a highly anticipated announcement, the agency declared that all seventy-nine pending permits in four states would “likely cause water quality impacts” ... Full Story »

Posted by Patricia L'Herrou - via Tom Friedman
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Posted by: Posted by Patricia L'Herrou - Sep 11, 2009 - 6:37 PM PDT
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Edited by: Patricia L'Herrou - Sep 12, 2009 - 9:28 AM PDT

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