ALERT - NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY TO STOP MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING AND OPPOSE WASTE DUMPS IN WATERS NATIONWIDE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 The Bush administration is very close to finalizing a change to Clean Water Act rules that would modify the Army Corps of Engineers' definition of "fill" material to allow the Corps to permit wastes from mountaintop removal coal mining to bury streams. In mountaintop removal coal mining, coal companies literally blast off the tops of mountains to reach the seams of coal, then dump the millions of tons of waste generated into nearby streams and wetlands. In October 1999 a federal court found that this practice violated the Clean Water Act and the stream protection provisions of the federal surface mining law. Now, the Army Corps of Engineers and US EPA are trying to change the rules in order to legalize this waste dumping. To make matters even worse, the proposed rule change would also allow hardrock mineral mining companies and all other kinds of industries to dump their wastes into waters, too. The result of this change in regulations will be nationwide devastation of rivers, lakes, wetlands and streams. Between 9am and 4 pm EST, we are asking people to please call: For more information visit http://www.cwn.org/docs/whatnew/whatnew.htm HERES WHAT YOU CAN DO: SPREAD THE WORD! Please send this message to your members, volunteers, friends, and colleagues asking the to participate in the nationwide event and send a reminder on the morning of March 20. MAKE THESE 2 CALLS YOURSELF! Two minutes can help save TALKING POINTS: Leave messages for Administrator Whitman and CEQ
Chairman Connaughton to tell them: |
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