Friends,
We have been mining coal for 150 years in Appalachia. Increasingly, over the last few decades, we have been doing this with a method of coal mining called "mountaintop removal," which is exactly what it sounds like.
As giveaways to the coal industry, the Bush Administration curbed regulations and wrote new rules which made it even easier for these renegade companies to blast apart mountains, and dump the toxic mine waste into our streams free of oversight or significant regulation.
Devilstower, A Siegel, emmasnacker, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, Jesse Jenkins, and 100s of other Kossacks have joined with a grassroots army in Appalachia to fight the Bush Administration's rule changes regarding mountaintop removal, and it is my pleasure to relay that with enormous gratitude to the EPA and the Obama Administration, we can celebrate a significant victory in the name of progress.
(w/ an important caveat...)
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