Mining industry leaders express concern about mountaintop removal issue

U.S. Senator John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., pointed out that the EPA's letter to the Corps "was specific to only one permit application in Ethel," and that the nation has more than a 200-year history of mining West Virginia coal, "and that is not going to change any time soon," Rockefeller was quoted as stating in a press release.  http://www.bdtonline.com/local/local_story_087203050.html