BREAKING: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

BREAKING: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?

It's been a long time coming. Now it's final. Lisa Jackson and the EPA have gone to the mountaintop removal and announced its veto of the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in Appalachia.

"This ushers in a new era of civility in the coalfields," said long-time coalfields justice leader Bo Webb. He added: "I think Judy Bonds just sent us all a little smile," referring to the recent passing of the "godmother" of the anti-mountaintop removal movement.

Invoking the rule of law and science in the central Appalachian coalfields, the EPA just announced its long awaited and extensively researched decision today to veto the 2,300-acre mountaintop removal mining permit at the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia. Basing their ruling on 404 (c) of the Clean Water Act, the EPA concluded that the proposed mine would have "unacceptable adverse effect on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds and fishery areas (including spawning and breeding areas), wildlife, or recreational areas."

This final determination overrules the Army Corps of Engineer's earlier approval of the Logan County mine.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/breaking-epa-vetoes-large_b_808544.html

[enough]

1. "Invoking the rule of law and science..." sounds almost too good to be true. Great news (nt)

[SpiralHawk]

2. "We invoke Greed & ignorance to demand more planetary destruction." - RepubliCorp (R)

"It's only a freaking mountain. Get over it. Sneer."

- RepubliCorp (R)

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.:thumbsup:

[SpartanDem]

4. K&R...I love the smell of change in the afternoon

[Petrushka]

5. Good news! --- K & R

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