Comments on: Saving the Appalachians from Mountaintop Removal Mining http://blog.nwf.org/2011/09/saving-the-appalachian-mountains/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Wed, 22 May 2013 03:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Stand with Heroes Fighting for Appalachian Mountains : Wildlife Promise http://blog.nwf.org/2011/09/saving-the-appalachian-mountains/comment-page-1/#comment-16809 Stand with Heroes Fighting for Appalachian Mountains : Wildlife Promise Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:05:19 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=32182#comment-16809 [...] as a college student to the coalfields of Appalachia to learn from the women and men fighting mountaintop removal coal mining, I had no idea the strength and courage of the people I would meet.  The local [...]

]]> By: John Kostyack http://blog.nwf.org/2011/09/saving-the-appalachian-mountains/comment-page-1/#comment-11236 John Kostyack Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:02:46 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=32182#comment-11236 Thanks for the feedback. Yes, there is a problematic rule from the Office of Surface Mining dealing with stream buffers that must be fixed. But there is a rule on valley fills from the EPA and the Corps of Engineers that must be fixed as well. For the sake of simplicity, I called attention to the latter, but I agree that the Administration needs to reinstate protections for stream buffers as well.
John

]]> By: Old Galoot http://blog.nwf.org/2011/09/saving-the-appalachian-mountains/comment-page-1/#comment-11233 Old Galoot Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:07:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=32182#comment-11233 “In particular, Administrator Jackson should reinstate the rule protecting streams from “valley fills” that was arbitrarily revoked by the Bush Administration in 2002.”

But wasn’t that an OSM rule about a buffer along streams?  I remember commenting on something like that…. 

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