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Shocking News: EPA to Greenlight Mountaintop Removal
Posted on May 15, 2009
My friend Jeff Biggers, a noted author on Appalachia and a strong ally in the fight against mountaintop removal, 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.Say it ain't so, Lisa Jackson! The new EPA administrator, who has rapidly restored environmental protection to t...
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