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November 19, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, EPA, fill, fillrule, interior, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, salazar
The Interior Department announced yesterday that it is taking immediate steps to strengthen oversight of state-approved surface coal mining operations -- including mountaintop removal -- and to impose tighter restrictions on the dumping of mining waste in steams. In a statement issued by the agency, Assistant Interior...continued→
July 2, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, colbert, fill, fillrule, obama, stephencolbert, supreme
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court made a dreadful decision to allow the dumping of toxic gold mine waste into a pristine Alaskan lake. The court deemed this pollution allowable as "fill material" under the Clean Water Act. Well, last night on The Colbert...continued→
