Coal Lobby files suit against U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
July 21, 9:32 AM- Clay County Environmental News Examiner- Tammy Rose|
The coal industry lobby has a filed suit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency to challenge President Obama’s administration’s stated plan to take steps toward setting limits to govern the environmental impacts of Mountaintop Removal Mining.
Lawyers for the National Mining Association, filed the suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, are challenging EPA’s more detailed review of Clean Water Act permits for surface mines and the agency’s new guidance for controlling “conductivity” pollution from mountaintop removal operations. Read entire article.