[PCA] NEWS: Activists slam EPA decision on mining rule change

[Olivia Kwong]

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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