Coal mining has EPA, Sierra Club and Energy Cabinet at odds
Kentucky Energy and Environment Secretary Len Peters sent out a statement that accuses the Environmental Protection Administration of overstepping its bounds by objecting to permits issued to strip mines.
Attorney and longtime environmentalist Tom Fitzgerald read Peters' statement. ...."EPA's final guidance provides important clarification of the agency's expectation that state's issuing discharge permits will no longer ignore the impacts of dissolved sulfates, carbonates and chlorides on the health of headwater streams..."
For both statements, follow the jump.
