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EPA approves rule change on mining debris in streams
Published December 2, 2008, 11:51 pm, Lexington Herald-Leader
WASHINGTON . The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that environmentalists fear will lead to coal companies burying more Appalachian streams with excess rock and dirt from surface mining. The change rewrites a 1983 rule that prohibited dumping the fill from mountaintop mining within 100 feet of streams. ...
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