End Big Coal’s Toxic Abuses

By Ilovemountains.org

President Obama announced on June 11 that he would work with the EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior to end the streamlined permitting process for mountaintop removal coal mining. Though an important step forward, this move is only a tug at the roots of a much more pressing problem.

The 2002 “fill rule,” a piece of legislation handed down by the Bush administration, allows coal companies to dump their toxic mining waste into our nation’s streams. Reversing this rule is essential to reviving polluted communities up and down the United States. Tell your Senators and Representatives that we need Congress to pass both the Clean Water Protection Act (HR 1310) in the House and the Appalachia Restoration Act (S 696) in the Senate to end the worst abuses of Big Coal.

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