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Haden Go Seek
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30 Jan 2003 |
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| Haden Go Seek In a blow to environmentalists, a federal appeals court has overturned a ruling preventing the U.S. government from issuing permits to mountaintop-mining operations. The operations access coal seams by shearing off huge slabs of mountains; the increasingly common process has resulted in tons of rock and dirt being dumped into valleys and streams. Last ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics) |
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