"In February a top enforcement official at the Environmental Protection Agency,
Eric Schaeffer, quit because of Bush administration policies
that he said undermined the agency's efforts to crack down on industrial polluters.
Mr. Schaeffer said he felt he was "fighting a White House that seems determined
to weaken the rules we are trying to enforce."
That, of course, is exactly what this White House is doing. Within weeks of
Mr. Schaeffer's resignation came official word that the administration was relaxing
the air quality regulations that applied to older coal-fired power plants,
a step backward that delighted the administration's industrial pals."
Excerpt from the article, "Fouling Our Own Nest" by Bob Herbert,
The New York Times
July 4, 2002
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Looking back on the article you posted about the floods in Appalachia, I have heard from my mom that
toxic waste has been dumped into river and streams because old mines have collapsed. These
floods and the pollution that flows into the rivers may be a serious problem that hasn't been brought
to the public's attention.
Thanks for the article! - Mephisto
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Flood Puts Town in Rebuild Mode
Appalachia: The second inundation since July also has some residents of mountain community talking about
pulling up stakes and moving.
By DAVID LAMB, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The following is an excerpt:
"After the last one, the state began investigating whether new coal mining practices were to blame for
the intensity of the flooding. In the last 10 years, coal companies have been shearing off
mountaintops to get to coal and piling the leftover rock and dirt into valleys, forever altering the
region's topography." |
