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Oppose Effort By the Bush Administration to Blow Up Mountains and Destroy Streams in Appalachia!

On January 7, 2004, the Bush administration proposed to repeal another longstanding environmental protection law in order to let the coal mining industry accelerate "Mountaintop Removal" mining. In this form of mining, coal companies actually blow up entire mountaintops and dump millions of tons of waste into nearby streams, burying them forever.

In May 2002, the Bush administration already repealed an important Clean Water Act safeguard that protected mountain streams from Mountaintop Removal waste. Now, the administration is targeting a Reagan-era rule known as the "buffer zone rule" that prohibits coal-mining activities from disturbing areas within 100 feet of streams. If the new Bush rule goes forward, coal companies will be allowed to dump massive amounts of waste directly into streams, destroying them completely. Already, over 1200 miles of streams in Appalachia have been buried by mountaintop removal waste, wiping out these streams and causing flooding and destruction in the surrounding communities. Send your comments today, as the public comment period ends April 7th!