Abstract

Proposed new regulations call for mountaintop surface coal mining in U.S. Appalachian states to reduce “burying” and other adverse impacts on streams and watersheds.The draft regulations, issued on 29 May by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other agencies, affect a 12‐million‐acre area encompassing parts of Kentucky West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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