Why should there be ANY environmental impacts?
Energy?
At what costs?
The word is ELIMINATE impacts, not, reduce them.
Obama Administration Takes Unprecedented Steps (click title to entry - thank you) to Reduce Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Coal Mining, Announces Interagency Action Plan to Implement Reforms: Federal agencies take coordinated action to strengthen oversight and regulation, minimize adverse environmental consequences of mountaintop coal mining
Contact Information: Christine Glunz (CEQ): (202) 456-3469; Kendra Barkoff (DOI): (202) 208-6416; Adora Andy (EPA): (202) 564-2715; Gene Pawlik (USACE): (202) 761-4715
WASHINGTON – Obama Administration officials announced today that they are taking
unprecedented steps to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining in the six
Appalachian states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West
Virginia through a coordinated approach between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
Department of the Interior (DOI) and Army Corps of Engineers....
