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Bravo Zulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 03:03 PM
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Hearing on mountaintop removal mining set for Pittsburgh!
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Six public hearings across the Appalachian coalfields next week, including one in Pittsburgh, figure to be the latest battleground in the fight over the future of a practice known as mountaintop removal mining.

The environmental community and pro-coal forces say they're pushing for big turnouts at the hearings, which will focus on a streamlined process coal companies have used to obtain permits to fill valleys with material left over from mountaintop removal mines.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09280/1003732-455.stm#ixzz0THYldxKD
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