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Obama’s EPA Does the Right Thing

EPA HQ will withhold 79 MTR valleyfill permits, sending them back to EPA regional offices

Today, EPA announced that they will be withholding 79 mountaintop removal and valleyfill permits for further review. More info and action tools forthcoming…

EPA goes through basic questions and answers about what this means here. (.pdf)

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.


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