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More mountaintop mining decisions loom http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1295402562
The Obama administration is facing a string of politically difficult decisions over one of the country's most contentious environmental issues: mountaintop removal coal mining.
Few issues can generate equivalent outrage among the administration's environmentalist allies as does mountaintop removal, a mining technique common in West Virginia and other Appalachian states where operators use explosives to open mountaintops and access coal seams, and then dump the resulting waste in adjacent streams. Green groups say the practice is among the worst abuses of the fossil fuel industry, saying it is ruining Appalachia's ecosystems and poisoning its drinking water supplies.
But Appalachia's mining industry calls itself the economic lifeline to one of the country's poorest regions.
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Perhaps we can agree to call it an economic deathline.
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