Wednesday, June 30, 2010

EPA Inexplicably Greenlights WV Mountaintop Removal Permit

by rperks

Maybe the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should change its acronym from EPA to WTF.

How else to explain the perplexing and downright disgusting decision last week by the agnecy to recommend approval by the Corps of Engineers of a permit sought by Coal-Mac (subsidiary of Arch Coal) for the Pine Creek Surface Minein Logan County, West Virginia.  So much for EPA's supposedly hard-line water protection standards issued in April which promised tougher oversight of mountaintop removal. 



continued at Daily Kos....