The nation - news from april 28, 2009
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The Obama administration took steps to reverse a last-minute Bush-era rule that allows mountaintop mining waste to be dumped near streams. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he wanted a
federal judge to give the Office of Surface Mining another chance to refine the buffer zone rule. Salazar proposed the temporary reinstatement of a 1983 rule that would keep coal companies
100 feet away from streams unless they could prove mining wouldn’t harm water quality or quantity. MORE TO READ