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We're sorry, this alert is no longer available. If you would like to learn more about ways you can take action, please visit Stop Mountaintop Removal.The short explanation of this alert was:
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 2004 the Bush administration proposed a new rule, which for the first time allows coal companies to ignore protections for the sensitive areas around streams and rivers, and just dump their wastes right on top of our waters. 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. Waiving the safeguards for the “buffer zone” surrounding waterways would only deepen the already devastating impacts of mountaintop removal 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This and other water protections are being repealed because the coal industry wants no environmental interference with their unlimited destruction of streams, mountains, forests, and communities.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: Call on the Senate to stand up for streams!
If enough senators hear from their constituents about the importance of protecting our vulnerable streams from mountaintop removal waste, they can tell the administration to send this misguided rule straight to the trash.
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