As Mountaintop Mining Spreads, Lawmakers Oppose Rule To Protect Streams
National Memo
As Mountaintop Mining Spreads, Lawmakers Oppose Rule To Protect Streams
An upcoming rule to protect the environment and communities near mountaintop-removal mining operations is contested by Big Coal.
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The most thoroughly disgusting method of mining. It destroys environments, forests, and eliminates streams it doesn't pollute. It also removes protections in WV, KY from tornadoes (missing mountains block them).
They can't even claim they're saving jobs - mountaintopping us largely machine/explosive intensive and has resulted in fewer miners needed.
Water is life. A shame Repubs can't admit reality exists.
x p WV & Envir&Energy
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But the coal industry has a ridiculous amount of power. 
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