End Mining Within 100 Feet of Streams

August 28, 2015, action.biologicaldiversity.org | “For decades legal loopholes have allowed coal companies to mine directly through streams, harming imperiled species like the Colorado pikeminnow and eastern hellbender salamander, and poisoning downstream waterways for people. But at least the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement has proposed a new Stream Buffer Zone Rule that would restrict all mining within 100 feet of streams.”
A court victory in 2014 against exceptions made by George Bush in 2008 requires that a new strict rule be adopted.For decades legal loopholes have allowed coal companies to mine directly through streams, harming…action.biologicaldiversity.org