
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.
Tags Appalachian Mountains, coal, epa, mountaintop removal mining, pollution, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, valley fill
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