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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 13 > Judge rebuffs Obama officials on mountaintop mining policy

Judge rebuffs Obama officials on mountaintop mining policy

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
August 13, 2009

CHARLESTON, W.Va. " A judge on Wednesday rebuffed the Obama administration's attempt to reverse a last-minute Bush-era rule that allows surface mine waste to be dumped near streams. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar wanted to return to a 1983 regulation that kept coal companies 100 feet from....

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