Congressman Ed Markey has championed the environment.
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After years of court fights, the
coal industry has lost a major battle against the EPA’s veto of one of the
largest, most destructive mountaintop removal mining operations ever proposed in
Appalachia!
This week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. upheld the
Environmental Protection Agency’s power to veto the permit for the Spruce No. 1
Mine in West Virginia.
The Spruce Mine was the first mountaintop removal permit ever
challenged in the courts, by our coalition partners 15 years ago, and has been
in litigation ever since. Earthjustice attorneys have worked with our allies for
years to support and defend the EPA’s veto, and we will continue to do so during
the next round of this case.
Thanks to your phone calls, letters, comments, photo petitions, and
activism, you share in this great victory—one of the most monumental so far in
our fight against mountaintop removal.
But, this is no time rest on our laurels. The coal
industry and its friends in Congress are doing everything in their power to undo
this victory and block clean water protections. We must not let them; nor can we
let the Obama administration rest on enforcing the Clean Water Act and
protecting Appalachia.
For mountains and mountain people,
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