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Mountaintop removal coal mining continues to cause controversy this year, as the Obama administration pushes a crackdown on the practice and coal industry officials and coalfield politicians try to shut down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency effort. Soon after taking office in 2009, the Obama administration began more detailed reviews of water pollution permits for coal-mining operations, promising to take "unprecedented steps: to reduce mining's impacts.
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THE coal industry and its supporters have warned since President Obama took office that tougher environmental standards will cost thousands of jobs. Now there is evidence that, when confronted with data showing lost mining jobs because of tighter regulations, the administration tried to change the findings.
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PARKERSBURG members of the Tea Party are considering a recall election of Mayor Bob Newell and the five members of the nine- member city council who voted to impose a weekly $2.50 city user fee on people who work in Parkersburg. Party president Sandy Staats said the user fee was the tipping point. Tea Partiers are also upset about what they view as the citys unchecked spending on overtime, travel and pet projects. The party also wants the city to hire a collector to go after delinquent B&O taxes and police, fire and sanitation fees. All those fees and taxes do raise the question of why another one is needed. The attorney generals office advised the group that there is no deadline for gathering petition signatures for a recall. But Staats said she will adhere to the citys 30-day deadline...
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What worries coal industry officials, and what excites opponents of mountaintop removal, is President Obama's pledge to require more regulation of mountaintop removal and carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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President Obama announced plans Wednesday to try to speed development of greenhouse gas control technology he said would ensure that the coal industry can "create jobs and provide energy well into the future. Obama directed top aides to form an inter-agency task force to implement his previously announced goal of getting 10 major test projects running by 2016.
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Coal industry officials and U.S. House Republicans on Thursday continued their campaign against the Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal mining, with another in a series of hearings focused on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency permitting practices. Fresh from House passage of a bill limiting the EPA's oversight of state water pollution regulators, a House subcommittee heard more complaints that federal officials have held up new permits and toughened water quality rules.
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CLEAR-CUTTING forests, shearing off mountaintops and burying streams and valleys in toxic rubble shouldn't be the standard operating procedure for any company. But, for far too long, it's been exactly that for the coal-mining industry in southwestern Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee. This month, the Obama administration took its most decisive step yet toward ending the out-of-control practice of strip-mining mountains to reach the veins of coal underneath.
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S. Environmental Protection Agency lawyers are seeking to combine a series of lawsuits by state regulators and coal industry groups that oppose the Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal coal mining. As part of this effort, EPA lawyers asked a federal judge in Charleston to transfer West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin's suit against federal regulators to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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ONLINE: Read the DEP guidance at http://blogs.wvgazette.com / coaltattoo West Virginia regulators on Thursday issued new water-quality guidelines they and the coal industry hope head off the Obama administration's efforts to crack down on mountaintop-removal mining.
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[CARL ZICHELLA], who sees climate change as the top issue facing the new administration, hopes that [Barack Obama] will follow through on his many promises to act on it. Obama needs to develop more wind and solar energy, Zichella says, and force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act. ([George W. Bush]'s EPA has refused to do so, even ignoring a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the issue.) Such EPA action would greatly increase pressure on the coal-plant industry to clean up its act, if that's possible. And, Zichella adds, Obama's EPA should quickly allow California, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico and other states to carry out their plans to limit carbon- di oxide emissions from vehicles something else Bush's EPA refused to do. That ...
