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26 Jan The Bush administration is moving to revamp a rule protecting streams that Appalachian environmentalists view as their best weapon for fighting the strip- mining technique of mountaintop removal.
Over the past six years, environmental groups have used the rule, which restricts mining within feet of a.
Mountaintop removal coal mining, often described as "strip mining on steroids," is an extremely destructive form of mining that is devastating Appalachia. In the past few decades, over Fighting for clean air is about protecting the health of kids, families and the communities that we live and work in.
Signing the Clean Air.
31 May Colossal earth-moving machines became symbols in the ss environmental battles over surface coal mining, also known as “strip mining.” These machines – some capable of scooping two-to-three Greyhound bus-size equivalents of earth with each bite – laid waste to tens of thousands of acres.
Description:Opt out or contact us anytime West Virginia and other states, which issue mining permits, enacted their versions of the rule. But for nearly two decades, it was only loosely enforced by states, allowing hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles of Appalachian streambeds to be buried. Lovett, on behalf of residents and an environmental group, filed suit, asserting that burying streams with mining waste violated the rule. The mining industry and the state disagreed, arguing that covering the upper stretches of a stream was acceptable if downstream portions were not impaired. In a strongly worded opinion issued in , Chief Judge Charles H. In , the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned Judge Haden's decision, ruling that federal courts did not have jurisdiction in the case.
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