Thursday, March 19, 2009

Obama pressed for mountaintop removal ban

http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200903170785

Various environmental group lawyers, activists and citizens met in Washington with top officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement.

Specifically, the mining opponents want EPA to use its Clean Water Act authority to step in and block the corps from issuing the new permits, and they want the CEQ to back up such a move by EPA.