Today marks a historic victory in the efforts to protect Appalachia and end the destructive practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its decision earlier this morning to protect mountain communities and the health of Appalachian citizens by vetoing the largest single mountaintop removal coal mining permit in West Virginia history, the Spruce No. 1 Mine.
Today’s decision will protect more than six miles of high quality streams from being buried under 110 million cubic yards of toxic coal mining waste--streams whose water tables provide drinking water for the region. In addition to protecting water quality and the health of local citizens, this decision protects more than 2,200 acres of mountains and forestlands in Logan Co, WV that would have been destroyed.
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