Environmentalists Rail Against Ruling in Favor of Mountaintop Removal

by Darren 16. February 2009 22:38

Members of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and Coal River Mountain Watch environmentalist groups are denouncing the federal ruling last Friday that went in favor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The environmentalists claim that the courts are not listening to the scientists who are debunking the Corps' efforts to mitigate the loss of streams covered by the process of mountaintop removal.

Read our post about the Friday's ruling here.

Read more about the responses from environmentalists at SustainableBusiness.com.

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