Bush Administration Redefines Mining Waste as Fill Material to Enable Mountaintop Removal
The Bush administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers jointly revise Clean Water Act regulations to classify mining debris and waste rock as “fill material” that can legally be dumped into streams and valleys. The rule change enables the coal …
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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