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Mountaintop Removal to Be Curtailed in Coal Mining, EPA Says
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyNew restrictions are coming for the controversial if effective mining technique of blowing off mountain peaks to dig down into coal seams, a practice in Appalachia that not only leaves an unsightly landscape but also fills valleys below with rubble and fouls streams. The guidelines, announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency, have long been sought by environmentalists and resisted by the mining industry, which has seen mountaintop mining in states like West Virginia grow to where it accounts for 10 percent of the coal generated in the U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson ...
Coal Company Cuts 500 Jobs in West Virginia, Blames Environmentalists
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPittsburgh-based CONSOL Energy announced this week that it plans to lay off 500 worker in West Virginia because of environmental regulation and litigation. The layoffs could come in early 2010 and will affect workers of the Little Eagle and Fola coal companies near Bickmore, W.Va. "It is unfortunate that, at a time when reliable and affordable energy is so desperately needed to reinvigorate our economy, that the nation's energy industries are coming under repeated assault from nuisance lawsuits and appeals of environmental regulations," said CONSOL CEO Nicholas J. DeIuliis. DeIuliis added ...
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