EPA rides to the rescue

The EPA has raced at breakneck speed to save us from the savagery of Mountaintop removal Mining. Now, after only an unbelieveably short few decades, they have stopped one single new mine from scalping a mountaintop in West Virginia. Now, why woud they do that, you ask? Well, because they dump the rubble into the valleys around it. So what, you ask? well, they fill in about nine miles of streams. So what, you ask? Well, toxic minerals drain off into what's left of the streams, down-stream. So what, you ask? Well, those toxic chemicals flow into the rivers that a great many people in cities along the way get their drinking water. Oh. Good for the EPA. Now we'll never have to worry. you say. Well, not quite. The EPA only put a hold on the project until they hear public comment. And guess who plans to comment, and file suit against that hold. The argument is that they already have a federal permit to do it. They have a, WHAT? A federal permit, that's what. Well what idiot approved such a permit? Actually, they've been giving out those permits for a very long time. In fact in Northeastern Pennsylvania, West Virginia and elsewhere in the country, permits to do all sorts of things that are harmful to human life, have been getting approved for as long as the Federal government has been involved with regulating such things. Now along comes the EPA, who says 'this is a bad idea'. Who do them think them is? Just exactly what's more important anyway? Cheap electric or people's lives. You know the answer to that. Turn the light on.