Mountaintop moving mining: EPA says yes, scientists say no <<>>
Written by Scientific American Topic - Medical Ethics on January 8, 2010 – 6:15 pm - On the heels of the U.S. Environmental Safeguard Intermediation announcement that it would permit a proposed coal dig involving mountaintop removal to go forward, 12 environmental scientists fool published a consider of the practice that condemns it in no uncertain terms. "Mining permits are being issued without thought the preponderance of detailed data that impacts are ubiquitous and unchangeable and that mitigation cannot offset for losses," the scientists wrote in the January 8 issue of Subject. "Regulators should no longer turn one's back on rigorous body of laws."
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