[PCA] NEWS: Activists slam EPA decision on mining rule change
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Dec 5 08:02:04 CST 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_bi_ge/mountaintop_mining
Activists slam EPA decision on mining rule change
By Vicki Smith, Associated Press Writer -- Wed Dec 3, 5:04 pm ET
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Angry environmentalists launched an online campaign
Wednesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to undo a federal rule that
clarifies when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams, calling it
a long-awaited "parting gift" from the Bush administration.
North Carolina-based Appalachian Voices and others blasted Tuesday's
Environmental Protection Agency decision to endorse the mining rule as the
death of freshwater streams and the likely start of a new surge in
mountaintop removal surface mining across Virginia, West Virginia,
Tennessee and Kentucky.
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