Keep Our Streams Safe From Dirty Coal Mining

[Omaha Steve]

Take action here: http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/streams_1008?rk=IdauAls113C9E

The Federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM) is poised to finalize a rule that would allow thousands of natural streams and valleys in Appalachia to be buried by waste from mountaintop removal coal mining. OSM's plan directly conflicts with the decades-old Stream Buffer Zone Rule, which prohibits surface coal mining activities from disturbing areas within 100 feet of permanent and seasonal streams.



For years, federal agencies have looked the other way as the coal industry has been allowed to blast away the tops of mountains to reach thin seams of coal. Already, mountaintop removal mining has flattened more than 500,000 acres and permanently buried 2,000 miles of streams, destroying sources that feed drinking water. These actions were taken in defiance of the existing Stream Buffer Zone Rule. Now, OSM wants to legalize this destruction, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must first give its approval for the change in rules to become law.

Please take action by telling the EPA that the destruction of Appalachia's valleys and streams is unacceptable. Tell EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to protect these valuable resources by keeping the Stream Buffer Zone Rule in place!

Take action today: http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/streams_1008?rk=IdauAls113C9E

-Earthjustice
Because the earth needs a good lawyer

P.S. Every voice counts! Please tell a friend to take action!

[texastoast]

1. Did it.

It just continues to amaze me how people want to get by treating Mother Earth. Our breadbasket. Just crazy to even think about this as an option.

:hi:

[Bobbieo]

2. Done deal!!!

[NNadir]

3. It's well, a little late for rivers like the Allegheny River.

I recall posting this bit years ago here: http://www.americanrivers.org/site/DocServer/allegheny-monongahela.pdf?docID=330

The Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Coal Mine Reclamation has been operating since 1982.

http://www.wpcamr.org/mission/problem.html

You can get a brazillion people up in arms about a single uranium atom in a liter of water. Not so coal shit, even if the water in an entire riverine system is highly toxic, acidic and worthless.

[quidam56]

4. Southwest Virginia is a TOXIC DUMP !

END MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL, wish Sean Hannity, Dick Morris and Bill O'Reilly would SHUT THE FUCK UP ! http://www.wisecountyissues.com

[backwoodsbob]

5. tazewell county here

I wouldn't go so far as to call sw Virginia a toxic dump