New York Times: A top federal regulator has recommended revoking the permit for one of the nation's largest planned mountaintop removal mining projects, saying it would be devastating to miles of West Virginia streams and the plant and animal life they support. In a report submitted last month and made public on Friday, Shawn M. Garvin, the Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator for the Mid-Atlantic, said that Arch Coal's proposed Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County should be stopped ......
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E.P.A. to Revoke Mining Permit
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 16th, 2010
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