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US Environmentalists Upset Over Decision To Allow Coal-Mining Within 100 Ft Of Rivers
Environmental Protection Agency introduced the changes in rules only recently. Activists argue that it will make it harder for them and for President-elect Barack Obama's incoming administration to challenge a controversial form of coal mining called mountaintop removal. That's when coal companies chop off the tops of mountains, mine the coal underneath and dump the leftover rock and dirt into nearby valleys and streams.
Lucille Miller's childhood home in Lincoln County, WestVirginia, is a tidy white farmhouse surrounded on three sides by a massive mountaintop removal mine almost as large as Manhattan Island. Piles of dirt and rubble as high as 10 and 20 stories tower overhead. There's nothing left of the creek behind her house it's covered with tons of dirt.
No one lives here now, but Lucille and her husband, Leon, come back almost every weekend. And in the summers, the family reunions can last weeks.
"They all like to come back home, and this is home," Leon Miller says. "They climb the hills and "
"What's left," his wife interjects.
"What's left of the hills," Miller says. "We don't have too many left. And they swim in the river. Of course, we're kind of afraid to let them do that, with the selenium, you know."
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