Thursday, March 26, 2009

Corps escalates mountaintop removal mining fight

http://wvgazette.com/News/200903250810
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials on Wednesday escalated a fight with the Environmental Protection Agency over the regulation of mountaintop removal coal mining. Read more in Coal Tattoo

At the same time, coalfield politicians rushed to insist that new policies should not threaten strip-mining jobs, while environmental groups urged a broader discussion of transitioning to more underground mining and finding "green jobs" for the Appalachian region.