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Ramsay Home: Bush’s Stream-Buffer Rule for Mining Will Remain Until 2011
Switchboard, from NRDC: Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department
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Bush’s Stream-Buffer Rule for Mining Will Remain Until 2011
Ramsay Home —
... found the following on 2009-11-02 18:02:27: New York Times wrote... Bush's Stream-Buffer Rule for Mining Will Remain Until 2011New York TimesA blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. A new "stream-buffer zone" rule could "optimistically" be finished by early 2011, Glenda Owens, ...and more Read the original article at, http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/11/02/02greenwire-bushs-stream-buffer-rule-for-mining-will-remai-53542.html Follow more real-time stories about environment at ...
Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... Reversing that bad Bush buffer zone rule is a cornerstone of the Obama administration expressed commitment to right the wrongs of mountaintop removal. Granted, over the summer a federal judge blocked Salazar's effort to vacate the regulation without public comment. But that doesn't excuse the Interior Department for announcing a brand new rulemaking process that won't result in any changes to the rule until at least 2011. The agency could -- and should -- have published proposed changes right away and ...
Interior Department Comes Out Strong (Rhetorically) on Mountaintop Removal
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... loosened protections to allow coal companies to dump mining waste directly into streams, and he favors revoking that rule change to restore original "stream buffer zone" protections that were enacted back in 1983. But rather than having his agency propose that change right away and proceeded straight to public input, the Interior Department's chosen course of action is a brand new rulemaking process that won't result in any changes to the rule until at least 2011. As I have ...
