So, mining by dynamite and destruction returns to the Appalachian Mountains. Are we ready for the next environmental disaster as described in Energy at Any Price : Clean Coal?
Unfortunately, the Bush administration repealed a rule that had created buffers around streams where mountaintop-removal waste could not be dumped. Now, coal companies will now be able to flush mining waste wherever they want without violating the Clean Water Act.
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2 comments:
thank you for helping get the word out about this issue. i think it was a poor decision and more of us should be up in arms about the environmental destruction being caused by it.
What about legal proceedings by the EPA? Since the EPAs power has been expanding since January, it is really hard to see why they would sit idly by when a court rules that mountaintop mining can proceed without any environmental review. Surely there must be something they could do.
And how about the rest of the executive branch? Didn't Obama promise to "bankrupt" the coal industry? Why then is there more "clean coal" mining going on?
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