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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Miracle! The EPA Decides to Protect the Environment
During the last seconds of the George W. Bush presidency, the Bushie Environmental Non-Protection Agency attempted to make permanent its rule that mountaintop coal mining in Appalachia could go forward unabated and that coal companies could bury adjacent streams with the "waste" removed from the mountaintops.
The Obama EPA just reversed that policy, putting on hold any new permits while impacts of mountaintop coal mining on streams and wetlands are reviewed.
We join our own J.W. Randolph of Appalachian Voices in applauding that move.
The Obama EPA just reversed that policy, putting on hold any new permits while impacts of mountaintop coal mining on streams and wetlands are reviewed.
We join our own J.W. Randolph of Appalachian Voices in applauding that move.
Labels: Appalachian Voices, environmental issues, J.W. Randolph, mountaintop removal coal mining
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Quote of the Day
"That is wrong on such a gut level."
--Austin Hall, looking at pictures of West Virginia mountains scarred by mountaintop removal coal mining (quoted here)
--Austin Hall, looking at pictures of West Virginia mountains scarred by mountaintop removal coal mining (quoted here)
Labels: Appalachian Voices, Austin Hall, mountaintop removal coal mining
