EPA makes Unprecedented and Historic Move

[SargeUNN]

http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/711

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made an unprecedented and historic move yesterday toward curbing the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. The new policy, effective immediately for pending surface mine permits, stipulates that the practice of valley fills - which bury streams and poison Appalachia’s water sources - will not be permitted unless they meet a high standard.

While this is indeed a historic moment in the fight to end mountaintop removal, and we applaud the EPA for this decision, the policy itself could be overturned by a new presidential administration. We need to pass a law making it permanently illegal to pollute the waters of Appalachia.
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Please go to the website and read this as well as get involved.

[babylonsister]

1. Great news, but old news, from last week. nt

[SargeUNN]

2. I just found out about it today

I have had the owner of that website on my radio show before, but had lost touch with him. I got news of this and was asked to try and get people to make the calls and do what they can to get this made a permanent law so old or not we need to keep it out there for people to see and get involved in. I think it is far more worthy of attention than any nit wit thing Sarah or Michelle does and unlike with those nit wits, it is something we can do something about.

[babylonsister]

4. All I'm saying is it's been posted more than a few times here, but

have at it. If you just found out about it, chances are there are people just like you. :hi:

[SargeUNN]

6. I know what you mean

This site sometimes is so busy you miss stuff. I have seen days where there would be 4 or 5 threads started on the same topic and say the same things, then later in the day I would see a topic I wished I had seen earlier. I wish all these similar threads could be put together but I guess that is not possible, and I can see how someone would miss a topic and want to post a new thread. Problem with a site this large that things do get missed.

I have had contact with people who are activist in this concern and they ask me to get people active in helping these bills get passed. Certainly I would rather bore those who have already heard it and get those who don't know about it but would be active if they did. I just want to see this hideous MTR ended.

[kenny blankenship]

3. "Unless they meet a high standard."

Good grief.

[SargeUNN]

5. yeah no standard justifies MTR however this does help

I have interviewed several about this practice over the last 3 years of my radio show, and MTR is something that must be stopped. This law put in by Obama is certainly a step forward and better than where we have been, but the practice itself needs to be stopped.

[backscatter712]

7. This is significant.

It'll make MTR more expensive if they can't just dump the fill in valley stream beds, they may have to switch to another, less destructive, way of mining.