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LETS STOP THE MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL STRIP MINING
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) are attempting to rewrite the Clean Water Act to
severely threaten our nation's rivers, streams, wetlands and wildlife that live
there. The rule change would overturn a recent court decision which found that
the waste disposal practices associated with mountaintop removal coal mining
violates the Clean Water Act. We need your help to stop mountaintop removal, an
environmentally horrific mining technique uses explosives to tear away whole
mountain peaks to get at coal deposits underneath. The debris is then bulldozed
into the valleys below, completely burying forests, streams and fragile wildlife
habitat. The Corps' proposal would allow mountaintop removal mining to continue
by giving the agency new authority to allow polluting industries to dump
mining waste directly into our nation's scenic rivers, mountain streams
and fragile wetlands -- areas which provide habitat for wildlife and
recreational and fishing opportunities for Americans. WHAT CAN YOU
DO: Please take a minute and send a free e-mail to the Army Corps of
Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency and tell them that you
do not support mountaintop removal mining .
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