Pro-mountaintop removal measure and threat to clean water gets the axe
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014. Yesterday a federal court struck down a controversial George W. Bush administration rule that opened up Appalachia’s streams and waterways to toxic dumping from destructive mountaintop removal mining operations.
Numerous national and Appalachian environmental and community groups challenged the midnight rule from 2008, which repealed a longstanding stream protection — a “buffer zone” of protection from mining activities and dumping…
