Constitutional Law

Groups Blast Administration Over Last-Minute Coal Mining Regulation

A coalition of environmental groups is dismayed over a last-minute Bush administration regulation that allows coal companies to dump debris from mountaintop mining into streams. The New York Times reported today that the regulation, “one of the most contentious of all the regulations emerging from the White House in President Bush’s last weeks in office,” was approved by the White House Office of Management and Budget and supported by the Environmental Protection Agency. Edwards C. Hopkins, a Sierra Club policy analyst, told the newspaper that the EPA’s “own scientists have concluded that dumping mining waste into streams devastates downstream water quality.” In a press release, Joan Mulhern, senior legislative counsel at Earthjustice, said, “Once again, the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to live up to its name. With less than two months left in power, the Bush administration is determined to cement its legacy as having the worst environmental record in history.”

Full post as published by ACS Blog on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).