EPA Halts New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits, Plans ‘Aggressive’ Review

This entry was posted by harry s truman on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 1:25 pm.

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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