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.
Not exact matches
The Coalfields Expressway
project, which I described as a «mountaintop
removal coal mine in disguise» in a prior post, is a public - private partnership between the Commonwealth of Virginia and
coal mining companies, including Alpha Natural Resources.
Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop
removal mining, the
projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in
coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.
• Ban Arctic oil drilling, offshore drilling, fracking, mountaintop
removal coal mining and pipeline
projects
They are working to protect communities from toxic
coal ash, end mountain top
removal, get the World Bank to stop funding
coal projects, put existing
mining protections into action, eliminate dirty
coal subsidies, halt the development of liquid
coal, and expose false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.
This wind
project has similarities to
coal mining mountaintop
removal, yet some people will only criticize
coal projects.