MORE GOOD NEWS EPA DECISION A TURNING POINT IN MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL
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From: Akasa W.
Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011, 5:08 PM
Subject: More Good News EPA Decision a Turning Point in Mountain Top Removal
Reply to: 271418
ID: 271423

Dear Waterkeepers....

There is also a great article in Yes Magazine on Visual Learning: Sacred Water: http://www.yesmagazine.org/for-teachers/curriculum/visual-learning-sacred-water

What a Great Site Shalahnia! There are many articles there pertaining to Water...Protecting Our Water Commons, Restoring California's Watershed's, How Felton, California Achieved Water Independence, and Just The Facts: Water Edition. Hope you can get a chance to read them...

Love, Akasa

--- On Fri, Jan 21, 2011, in msg271418, Shalahnia K wrote ---

This is something to do a happy dance about.

"For the first time in its history, the Environmental Protection Agency is using its authority under the Clean Water Act to veto an already issued permit—that of Spruce Mine, a mountaintop removal coal mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia that would have been the largest in the state... With this action, the EPA stopped the burial of over 6 miles of headwater streams and the destruction of mountaintops and forests covering over 2,200 acres."

Read more here from Yes Magazine:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/a-turning-point-for-mountaintop-removal? utm_source=wkly20110121&utm_medium=yesemail&utm_campaign=mrDiaz

Hooray!

Shalahnia

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