[Old School]

Again you keep spitting out the same BS, I dont like MTR, I am totally against ILLEGAL valley fills, I am not against all mining.

a lot of people from the pro-mtr side, and the "Friends of coal" nutcases, keep trying to persuade people the anyone against MTR is against coal and wants to take coal miners jobs. Which isnt true, machines and the practice of MTR has taken away more jobs from miners than any environmentalist will do.

And I wasn't talking about the 1998 West Virginia ruling, which under the proposal of the Clinton administration and the EPA, was used throughout Appalachia beginning in 2000. The ruling I was talking about was completed in may 2002, The bush administration changed the definition of fill material, and they changed the ruling on how and where this material could be placed. They changed many other things also like downgrading the label of "Hazardous" on mercury pollution from power plants, which gave power plants 15 more years to implement better controls, they also changed a ruling that made high level radioactive waste "incidental", which saved the government the time and money it takes to clean it up.

The ruling on the "fill material" consisted of the same type of tricks, one which is still ongoing, the "clarification" of the stream buffer rule. They also changed many of the rulings under the CWA from "discretionary" to "non discretionary", minor word changes that have major effects. They also changed the limits on the size of new MTR sites. I have mentioned this rule change at least a dozen times, and then you bring up a ruling from 1998, that was only in WV, and has nothing to do with Kentucky, or this topic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn...ge=printer

Yes you were lol. The final ruling in 2002 was because of the 1998 lawsuit brought on by the WV. Highlands Consevancy. The ruling was for West Virginia but they are trying to change it to include Kentucky and all other Coal producing states. I believe the Corps of Engineers have stopped issuing 404 permits in Kentucky, which is the way it started in WV.