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Mountaintop removal mining, in which coal companies blast the tops off of mountains and push millions of tons of waste into valleys, is polluting and obliterating streams all across Appalachia. To make things worse, the Bush administration has been trying to eliminate some of the most important environmental safeguards meant to protect waters from being buried by mountaintop removal waste.

For example, in 2002 the Bush administration proposed a new rule, which for the first time allows coal companies to just dump their wastes into pristine streams and rivers. This proposal, if finalized, would repeal a law adopted during the 1980s that creates a 100 foot buffer zone around permanent and seasonal streams protecting them from damage caused by coal mining. This is flatly inconsistent with the very purpose of the Clean Water Act, and is a blatant attempt to legalize the destructive practice of mountaintop removal coal mining.

This and other water protections are being repealed because the coal industry wants no environmental interference with their unlimited destruction of streams, mountains, forests, and communities. Unfortunately, it seems that the coal industry’s wish is the Bush administration’s command.

We need your help: Support the Clean Water Protection Act!

The Clean Water Protection Act, would block this destructive rule change and expressly forbid the use of waste to fill the nation’s waters. This important legislation is needed to ensure our streams and waterways aren’t buried under millions of tons of mining and other industrial wastes.

Ask your representative to support the Clean Water Protection Act today!

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