New York Times: President Obama Can Stop Mountaintop Removal

Mike Roselle and James Guin McGuinness carry their banner across the mountaintop removal site on Cherry Pond Mountain on February 16, 2009.   photograph (c) antrim caskey, 2009
Mike Roselle and James Guin McGuinness carry their banner across the mountaintop removal site on Cherry Pond Mountain on February 16, 2009. photograph (c) antrim caskey, 2009

Editorial

Appalachia’s Agony

Published: March 16, 2009

The longstanding disgrace of mountaintop mining is now squarely in President Obama’s hands.

A recent court decision has given the green light to as many as 90 mountaintop mining projects in Appalachia’s coal-rich hills, which in turn could destroy more than 200 miles of valleys and streams on top of the 1,200 miles that have already been obliterated. The right course for the administration is clear: stop the projects until the underlying regulations are revised so as to end the practice altogether.

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