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Playing Mined Games
Green groups seek to overturn mine exemption from ESA reviews |
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17 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:53 AM on 17 Jan 2008 Four green groups and two state agencies have filed a petition with federal wildlife and mining agencies seeking to change the long-standing policy of exempting mountaintop-removal mining from specific Endangered Species Act reviews. In 1996, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided that mountaintop-removal mining wouldn't unduly imperil threatened species if mines followed othe ... |
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