EPA to Take Closer Look at 79 Permits for Appalachian Surface Mines
Friday 11 September 2009
by: Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers
Washington - The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny.
Many of the 79 applications would remove mountaintops and dump debris in valley streams.[read rest of article]
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