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30 Days to Save the Mountains: Day 1 |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 5:06 pm |
| Tags: mountaintop removal mining, blog action day, environment |
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Today is Blog Action Day in which every blog is being asked to put special focus on the environment. That seems like a very good day to kick off a month long effort to limit mountaintop removal mining. The Appalachian Mountains are a gift out of time, the work of half a billion years. But our time to save them is very limited. The Bush administration has already placed changes to the Stream Buffer Zone Rule up for public comment. They're using the excuse of the mining deaths that have happened underground -- deaths that came in no small part from relaxing regulations -- to throw open the doors to more mountaintop removal. The answer is the Clean Water Protection Act (H. R. 2169). It's a small piece of legislation that could do tremendous good. Passing this bill would block the Bush administration's invitation to destruction, and for the first time impose clear restrictions on mountaintop removal and other forms of mining that practice [ Full article ] |
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