Friday, November 7, 2008

BUSH OFFICIALS PLAN TO DIAL BACK ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS

Valley fill resulting from mountaintop-removal coal mining operation.

by: Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers

Washington - In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia.

The administration is widely expected to try to get some of the rules into final form by the week before Thanksgiving because, in some cases, there's a 60-day delay before new regulations take effect. READ POST HERE»

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