EPA Halts New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits, Plans ‘Aggressive’ Review
Awesome news:
The Obama Administration just made a major announcement – they have directed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to not issue any new mining permits until the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a chance to take a hard look at well over 100 pending permits to bury streams with mining waste, an essential part of the mountaintop removal coal mining process.
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