[CC] TAKE ACTION: Protect Communities from Hazardous Coal Mining Waste (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:24:50 GMT
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To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
Subject: TAKE ACTION: Protect Communities from Hazardous Coal Mining Waste

TAKE ACTION: Protect Communities from Hazardous Coal Mining
Waste
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Dear Alan,

Please tell Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to protect at-risk
communities by restoring strong protections for streams and
ending mountaintop removal coal mining.

The Department of Interior and Office of Surface Mining have
publicly stated that they intend to revise regulations, gutted
by the Bush administration, known as the "Stream Buffer Zone
Rule" -- a decades-old prohibition on surface mining activities
within 100 feet of flowing streams. The Interior Department is
holding a comment period to get feedback from the public until
December 30.

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TAKE ACTION: Protect Communities from Hazardous Coal Mining
Waste

http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/mtr_1209/iw67be5rr7jbkbxe?#startform

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This is our opportunity to push back against efforts to pressure
the Obama administration into keeping the destructive Bush
policies instead of restoring the necessary safeguards.

Sec. Salazar needs to hear from you before the Dec. 30 deadline
for public comments.

Communities throughout the Appalachian region suffer daily from
contaminated drinking water, increased flooding and a decimated
landscape resulting from destruction wreaked on thousands of
miles of streams by mountaintop removal coal mining.

Reinstating and enforcing the 100-foot prohibition in the Stream
Buffer Zone Rule will rein in the reckless mining that has
ravaged Appalachia. Take this opportunity to protect streams and
communities. Send in your comment today!

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TAKE ACTION: Protect Communities from Hazardous Coal Mining
Waste

http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/mtr_1209/iw67be5rr7jbkbxe?#startform

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