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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 03 > EPA guts stream protection rules

EPA guts stream protection rules

Agency signs off on changes that give more leeway to mining firms

By Renee Schoof and Bill Estep / The Bulletin
December 3, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that will allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks leftover from mining.

The 1983 rule prohibited dumping the fill from mountaintop removal mining....

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