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Jeff Biggers

Clean Water: A blow against mountain top removal mining

by: Susanna

Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 14:28:28 PM EST

From the CCAN Blog.
black mountain, mtr
In what could be a major victory for Virginia's mountains, the Clean Water Protection Act was introduced in the Senate today with a record 115 co-sponsors.  The act would outlaw the act of dumping mining waste into streams, a crucial and destructive step in mountain top removal mining.  
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