Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 13, 2011. Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took an historic step by vetoingthe water pollution permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Spruce No. 1 Mine project in West Virginia, one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Appalachia. With today’s action to enforce the law, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson stopped a mountaintop mine that would have destroyed more than seven miles of vital streams…
