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| − | '''700 Mountains''' is a grass-roots citizens group formed to fight a proposal by the Bush administration's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) to relax environmental regulations to enable the coal industry to use a controversial mining technique called " | + | '''700 Mountains''' is a grass-roots citizens group formed to fight a proposal by the Bush administration's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) to relax environmental regulations to enable the coal industry to use a controversial mining technique called "mountaintop removal." [[Mountaintop removal]] mining removes the top of a mountain in search of coal and deposits the spoils in adjacent valleys. If this new legislation is approved, more than 700 mountains could be effected, with potentially devastating results for the landscape and local ecosystems. |
==Related coal plant proposals== | ==Related coal plant proposals== | ||
Revision as of 23:53, 22 February 2008
{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} 700 Mountains is a grass-roots citizens group formed to fight a proposal by the Bush administration's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) to relax environmental regulations to enable the coal industry to use a controversial mining technique called "mountaintop removal." Mountaintop removal mining removes the top of a mountain in search of coal and deposits the spoils in adjacent valleys. If this new legislation is approved, more than 700 mountains could be effected, with potentially devastating results for the landscape and local ecosystems.
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Related coal plant proposals
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Group website: 700 Mountains
Contact: aaaron [at] hastingsgroup.com
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Related SourceWatch Articles
External Links
- "Rule to expand mountaintop coal mining in U.S.", International Herald Tribune, August 23, 2007.
