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The Understory : Understory.RAN.org: EPA Deems 42 of 48 Mountaintop Removal Permits “Environmentally Responsible”
Switchboard, from NRDC: Shocking News: EPA to Greenlight Mountaintop Removal?
It's Getting Hot In Here: EPA Says 42 of 48 Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits “Environmentally Responsible”
EPA Deems 42 of 48 Mountaintop Removal Permits “Environmentally Responsible”
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
... this guy that ran on that rhetoric last year and got elected to the presidency based on it.
I guess Appalachia is a “hope” and “change” free zone.
Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward is reporting on his Coal Tattoo blog that the EPA has “signed off on almost all (87.5 percent, to be exact) of the mountaintop removal permits that has so far been reviewed under the initiative announced in March.”
Check out Jeff Biggers’ blog on the subject.
Shocking News: EPA to Greenlight Mountaintop Removal?
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... , just emailed me the link to his latest HuffPo blog with a one-word note: "depressing." One click revealed the shocking, utterly heartbreaking news that the Environmental Protection Agency appears poised to let the Army Corps of Engineers proceed with its plan to approve dozens of MTR permits that have been under scrutiny by order of the Obama administration. ...
Shocking News: EPA to Greenlight Mountaintop Removal
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... , just emailed me the link to his latest HuffPo blog with a one-word note: "depressing." One click revealed the shocking, utterly heartbreaking news that the Environmental Protection Agency appears poised to let the Army Corps of Engineers proceed with its plan to approve dozens of MTR permits that have been under scrutiny by order of the Obama administration. ...
EPA Says 42 of 48 Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits “Environmentally Responsible”
It's Getting Hot In Here —
... removal, Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said 42 out of 48 permits (87.5 percent, to be exact) to blow the tops off of Appalachian mountains “environmentally responsible.” Does the picture above look “environmentally responsible?”
I guess Appalachia is a “hope” and “change” free zone. It’s definitely the national sacrifice zone for our energy addiction.
Read Jeff Biggers’ blog for the longer story.
If you want to make some change consider ...
EPA Clears Waterboarding Permits for Appalachia
Peak Oil News —
... Barack Obama has taken office, an estimated 300 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives have been detonated across our American mountains. In effect: Residents in the mountaintop removal areas have been subjected to a kind of waterboarding environmental policies. All well-meaning intentions aside, an indubitable fact remains: mountaintop removal is an immoral crime against nature and our citizenry, a human rights violation and it must be abolished, not regulated. Huffrington Post
Obama’s EPA:More Compromise on Mountaintop Removal
It's Getting Hot In Here —
... brought intense pressure to not hold 200 pending permits for serious review. Last month they approved 42 of 48 existing permits as “environmentally responsible.” And today, they announced it will continue and they will only regulate it. (The Washington Post in ...
