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Residents Fight in Court to Protect Their Homes and the Streams of Appalachia from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

September 28, 2007 – 7:04 am

EarthJustice
Groups challenging proposal to bury more streams in West Virginia on heels of recent coEArurt victory
September 26, 2007

Mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia

Photo by V. Stockman/OVEC

Huntington, WV — Boone County residents today asked a federal judge to stop a proposed valley fill at a mountaintop removal operation because it will decimate their community, [...]

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Mountain-top Removal Coal Mining

August 30, 2007 – 10:00 am

I received this in my email this morning.  Please take action today!!!
Deborah,

The Bush Admin. has proposed a rule to encourage mountaintop removal mining — and public comments might be disregarded! Tell Congress to make sure our comments count.
Note that we will be taking on coal in a number of upcoming alerts, as part of our [...]

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Bush Administration to Announce Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining

August 27, 2007 – 5:05 am

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Climate Crisis Coalition
Bush Administration to Announce Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining. By John M. Broder, The New York Times, August 23, 2007. “The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday that would enshrine the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping [...]

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