EPA Strongly Defends Its Veto of One of Largest Mountaintop Removal Mines Ever Proposed

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2012.  On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice that it is appealing the U.S. District Court decision that overturned the agency’s veto under the Clean Water Act of the extremely destructive Spruce No. 1 mine, one of the nation’s largest proposed mountaintop removal coal mines. The appeal will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals…