Comments on: End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/end-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/ Photos and Front Porch Musing from Floyd County Virginia Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Wandering the web on a Sunday afternoon… | Coffee Muses http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/end-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-19352 Wandering the web on a Sunday afternoon… | Coffee Muses Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:56:07 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/08/19/end-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/#comment-19352 [...] End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining | Fragments From Floyd What can Congress do to stop mountaintop removal?The Clean Water Act was enacted by Congress to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters,” and prohibited the dumping of material into waterways for the purpose of waste disposal. In 2002, the Secretary of the Army changed the definition of “fill material” in order to include mining waste. Since debris from mountaintop removal is no longer considered “waste,” coal companies are dumping millions of tons of mine waste into streams. [...] [...] End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining | Fragments From Floyd What can Congress do to stop mountaintop removal?The Clean Water Act was enacted by Congress to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters,” and prohibited the dumping of material into waterways for the purpose of waste disposal. In 2002, the Secretary of the Army changed the definition of “fill material” in order to include mining waste. Since debris from mountaintop removal is no longer considered “waste,” coal companies are dumping millions of tons of mine waste into streams. [...]

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]]> By: bluemountainmama http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/end-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 bluemountainmama Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:25:20 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/08/19/end-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/#comment-1281 thanks, fred! for some reason, whenever i try to send the letter, i get an error report. i let ilovemountains know, though. i hope others aren't having the same problem. i'll just need to go directly to my representatives site and copy and paste the letter and send. our representatives are home during august and i am setting up a meeting with ours to talk to him about 'the clean water act'....even though he is against it. but i'm gonna keep bugging our officials in our state...they are the ones allowing this atrocity. thanks, fred! for some reason, whenever i try to send the letter, i get an error report. i let ilovemountains know, though. i hope others aren’t having the same problem. i’ll just need to go directly to my representatives site and copy and paste the letter and send.

our representatives are home during august and i am setting up a meeting with ours to talk to him about ‘the clean water act’….even though he is against it. but i’m gonna keep bugging our officials in our state…they are the ones allowing this atrocity.

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