COAL IS KING AGAIN
BY BRADFORD MCKEE
Image courtesy of iLoveMountains.org [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
FROM THE UPCOMING MARCH 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE
Among the very early priorities of the new Republican-controlled Congress was to give the greenest of lights to any corporation?corporations being people?that wants to blow off the top of a gorgeous Appalachian mountain for coal, throw the spoils into the nearest headwaters, ruin the stream, ruin much downstream, and destroy a spectrum of wildlife, not to mention human life, in the process.
The instrument was a joint resolution of the House and Senate that pulled back the Stream Protection Rule, a long-sought goal of the Obama administration to prevent mountaintop removal for mining, which took effect on January 19, Obama?s last day as president. Its reversal by Congress was presented to President Trump on February 6. The resolution kills the Obama rule, which was out to prevent the destruction of streams. Its technical language focused on preventing ?material damage to the hydrologic balance? of areas outside those permitted for mountaintop mining. It would have clarified what had been the government?s ambivalence toward a practice that is good only for coal companies. Many, many streams in Appalachia, among the last hot spots of life minding its own business on our continent, are being destroyed. There are many parties to hold responsible. One of the more vocal proponents of mountaintop removal was Massey Energy,...
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