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Blogs @ The Charleston Gazette -  » Mountaintop removal moratorium — NOT!
Blogs @ The Charleston Gazette - » Mountaintop removal moratorium — NOT!
large_ljackson.JPG The National Mining Association blasted EPA for “halting mining permits.” West Virginia Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito warned the Obama administration about not to “block mining permits.” Coalfield environmentalists praised the federal government’s decision “to deny ...
03/24/2009: EPA Acts to Reduce Harmful Impacts from Coal Mining
yosemite.epa.gov — Release date: 03/24/2009 Contact Information: Enesta Jones, 202-564-4355 / 7873 / jones.enesta@epa.gov (Washington, D.C. – March 24,... 2009) The United States Environmental Protection Agency has sent two letters to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ... (more) 03/24/2009: EPA Acts to Reduce Harmful Impacts from Coal ...
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Matt Wasson: Mountaintop Removal Blow-Back
Matt Wasson: Mountaintop Removal Blow-Back
huffingtonpost.com — If you're a reader of the Huffington Post Green Page then you are almost certainly aware that... the Obama Administration signaled a major shift yesterday in how mountaintop removal coal mining will be regulated. In brief, Obama's head of the EPA, ... (more) Matt Wasson: Mountaintop Removal Blow-Back
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Making Sense of EPA's Mountaintop Removal Action
Switchboard, from NRDC — ... Yesterday was a wild ride on the mountaintop removal front, with many people suffering whiplash from EPA's dueling press releases.  Appalachian-based environmental journalist extraordinaire, Ken Ward, Jr., offers some after action perspective in his Coal Tattoo blog this morning. ...

Mountaintop Removal Blow-Back
WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — After yesterday's emotional roller-coaster ride on mountaintop removal, fueled by some bad reporting from the AP and two dueling and somewhat contradictory press releases from the EPA, we're happy to run this post from Appalachian Voices' Matt Wasson (originally posted at HuffingtonPost) taking a closer look at what's at stake in the fight over mountaintop removal. Jobs, ecosystems and communities are all on the line, so delve deep with Wasson's posts here... ...

Mountaintop Removal Blow-Back
The Energy Collective — After yesterday's emotional roller-coaster ride on mountaintop removal, fueled by some bad reporting from the AP and two dueling and somewhat contradictory press releases from the EPA, we're happy to run this post from Appalachian Voices' Matt Wasson (originally posted at HuffingtonPost) taking a closer look at what's at stake in the fight over mountaintop removal. Jobs, ecosystems and communities are all on the line, so delve deep with Wasson's posts here... ...

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EPA Mountaintop Mining Backtrack: Permits NOT FrozenGreen on HuffingtonPost.com
Now I'm disappointed and more than a little confused by EPA's "clarifying" statement issued this evening. Based on this, it appears that EPA is taking a positive step forward -- but it's a more of a baby step. To wit: The Environmental ...