Friday, September 03, 2010
National Mining Association Criticizes EPA
WEST VIRGINIA....
In renewing its criticism, the National Mining Association has accused the EPA of using bad science to develop the strict water quality standards it introduced April 1st. Among other things, the organization says the study underpinning the standards violated EPA guidelines by relying on field data rather than laboratory findings. The EPA policy is aimed at sharply reducing the practice of filling valleys with waste from mountaintop removal and other types of surface mines in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Tennessee. Mountaintop removal coal mining is considered highly efficient by mine operators, but terribly destructive by environmentalists.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:33 PM 
