Here’s the news report, per CBS news : The Environmental Protection Agency is putting on hold hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits until it can evaluate the projects’ impacts on streams and wetlands. The decision was announced Tuesday by EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. It targets a controversial practice by coal mining companies that dump waste from mountaintop mining into [...]
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EPA Suspends Mountaintop Removal Mining
Posted in Conservation, tagged Coal, Conservation, mountaintop removal, US EPA on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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