postscript (even though it is at the beginning . .. )About 195 million children currently suffer from malnutrition. As I watched my 4 year old eat her dinner after writing this post, all I could think about was the unbearable pain that a parent unable to feed her child must suffer.
Yesterday, Lisa Jackson and the EPA sent a clear message to those who would destroy Appalachia's mountains.
Back on September 27, the day of the Appalachia Rising events in Washington, D.C., I said this during a DailyKos livechat: "...it's up to Obama's EPA to put a halt to any further blasting in Appalachia. The biggest test of the Administration's commitment to coalfield residents, Appalachia's mountains -- and basic environmental sanity -- is whether the Administration will approve Arch Coal's Spruce mine MTR mining permit."
So kudos to the EPA, to Administrator Jackson, and to Regional Administrator Shawn Garvin for passing that test by recommending the withdrawal of the mining permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia.