Friday, December 07, 2007

 

Environmental Groups Challenge Ky Mountaintop Removel Permit

The Sierra Club and Kentucky Waterway Alliance sued the federal government in federal court in Louisville. At issue is a permit allowing International Coal Group to expand a mountaintop removal operation in Eastern Kentucky.

The groups say the expansion would bury streams and creeks leading into the Kentucky River...a water source for more than a million people.





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