The Bush administration yesterday announced new rules on surface coal mining, effectively removing the already inadequate rules regarding what's called Mountaintop Removal. This will "legitimize" what has been illegal for many years, the removal of the tops of mountains and dumping the debris in the valleys, thus permanently polluting or even eliminating valley streams.

As is no surprise, environmentalist are up in arms about this.

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Dave Oesterreich