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Fire on the Mountain
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Ben White |
13 Apr 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Enviros in Washington are apoplectic over what they fear will be a pre-Earth Day cave-in by the Clinton administration over mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. This used to be a mountain. Photo: David Miller, www.mountaintopmining.org. Readers may recall this battle from last year's appropriations season, when powerful Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) introduced a rider that would have bypassed a federal judge's ruling against the destructive mini ... |
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| Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, Greenpeace, Idaho, Montana, Muckraker, Nevada, politics, Utah, Washington DC, West Virginia, World Bank, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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