Sentences with phrase «mountaintop removal coal mining permits»
The participants voiced a wide range of concerns, from the impact of hydroelectric dams on American Indian populations to the E.P.A.'s review of mountaintop removal coal mining permits to the longevity of a green jobs recovery.
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The 1,200 - acre permit, located on a forested ridge above the town of Appalachia, Virginia, would have had intense impacts on residents already affected by decades of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Coal companies and their lobbyists are pushing for more than 100 new mountaintop removal mining permits, seeking permission to blow more mountains up and destroy more mountain streams in even more communities.
Despite growing a health and human rights crisis, the troubling judicial move comes on the heels of the coal mining industry's spring ritual of EPA bashing, including a recent pillory of EPA administration chief Lisa Jackson by big coal - booster US Rep. Hal Rogers (R - KY), and the insidiously untrue mantra that mountaintop removal permits «have slowed to a trickle.»
On June 29, Kucinich, Rep. Louise Slaughter, and several others introduced the Appalachian Communities Health Emergency Act (H.R. 5959), a bill that would «place a moratorium on permitting for mountaintop removal coal mining until health studies are conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services.»
Massey currently runs numerous mountaintop removal strip mines throughout Appalachia and holds a number of pending permits to mine along the Coal River Valley.
EPA Objects to Permits For Three More Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Operations
April 9, 2012: U.S. EPA overstepped its authority when it vetoed a Clean Water Act permit issued for a sprawling mountaintop - removal coal mining project in West Virginia, a federal judge ruled today.