Today Lisa Jackson Administrator of the EPA announced a BLOCK on perphaps more than 200 mountaintop removel (MTR) permits being requested by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps contracts companies to extract coal in the most harmful way possible, this includes its own arm...TVA. The fight is not over but, we are winning.
Those who are misinformed will argue that not allowing MTR will shut down an industry in the Appalachian region. This is false. To the contrary MTR is bringing in non-local construction workers and taking AWAY jobs from the local miners.
Stopping MTR will be a benefit to all species, people and ecosystems.
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