Sentences with phrase «removal coal mining project»

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.
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