Mountain Top Mining Will Expand

Daily Kos by Dgil | May. 31, 2009 (Opinion)

The new administration's EPA has moved quietly and efficiently in approving more than 2 dozen new mountain top open mining projects. Until today it has flown off radar. Environmentalists that have fought MTM in the past are saying they have been betrayed, and that this has been done mainly to cement votes in weak D states like West Virginia. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business
Topics: Obama Administration, Coal
Member Tags: EPA, mountaintop removal
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - May 31, 2009 - 4:43 PM PDT
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Edited by: David Fox - Jun 1, 2009 - 3:32 PM PDT
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