Thursday, August 23, 2007

Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining

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 the rubble into valleys and streams.Mountaintop mining is the most common strip mining in central Appalachia, and the most destructive. Ridge tops a

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