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On Friday, the Interior Department?s Office of Surface Mining proposed new regulations that it hopes will permanently legalize mountaintop mining ? a cheap, ruthlessly efficient, environmentally destructive means of mining coal from the mountains of Appalachia.
Mountaintop mining is basically high-altitude strip mining. Enormous machines scrape away the ridges to get at the coal seams below. The residual rock and dirt are then dumped or carted down the mountainside into nearby valleys and streams. By one estimate, this serial decapitation of Appalachia?s coal-rich hills has already buried 1,200 miles of streams while damaging hundreds of square miles of forests.
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Maureen Sharib Telephone Names Sourcer/MagicMethod Trainer 513 899 9628 TechTrak.com, Inc. maureen at techtrak.com www.techtrak.com
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