Bush To Ease "Mountaintop Mining" Rule

[sabra]

Source: CBSNews/AP

Environmental Groups Furious At "Gift" To Coal Mining Industry In Waning Days Of Bush Administration


(CBS/AP) Angry environmentalists launched an online campaign Wednesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to undo a federal rule that clarifies when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams, calling it a long-awaited "parting gift" from the Bush administration.

North Carolina-based Appalachian Voices and other groups blasted Tuesday's Environmental Protection Agency decision to endorse the mining rule as the death of freshwater streams and the likely start of a new surge in mountaintop removal surface mining across Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.

Although the regulation would apply nationwide, mountaintop removal operations are of special interest in Appalachia, where surface mines now outnumber those underground.

An EPA study estimated 400,000 acres of forest were wiped out and nearly 724 miles of streams buried between 1985 and 2001 by mountaintop mining, in which forests are clear cut and holes are drilled to blast apart rock. Massive machines, some with buckets big enough to hold 24 compact cars, scoop coal from the exposed seams.


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[NC_Nurse]

1. Fuck him.

Worst President Ever. Doing his best to ruin what's left from his shameful reign. :puke:

[ozymandius]

8. Hear! Hear!

What a sack of human excrement is Bush.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. Oh well. It's not like we need those streams or forests anyway.

:eyes:

[Javaman]

3. in other news...

pResident bush* announced today that the eating of live babies on TV will become a national sport.

[elmerdem]

4. this problem needs help nationally

I'm in KY & it is abundantly apparent that our state government will/is doing zero. The shitstack lt. governor commented that these areas will make good ATV trails. Mtns. don't grow back. Please contact your senators & reps. This is a moral issue of importance to everyone in the US. Right now it appears that Federal legislation is the only way to stop MTR.

[Duppers]

5. Bushco reminds me of a dog that shits in his food bowl

The GD AH(s)!

[HopeHoops]

6. Bush just CAN NOT be outdone by Saddam - he has to destroy even MORE on the way out!

[merh]

7. Hughes and Rove aren't doing him any favors in that "legacy" dept.

GWB will be known as the president that took a dump on the nation as he was leaving office. Fuck the myth of stealing keys from keyboards, his vandalism is much worse and it is real.

:argh: