[Coach_Owens87]

I love mountains too. The reclaimed mountains that are mined are just as beautiful as before. It's not like trees and vegetation isn't replanted and regrown.

You obviously don't understand what all this action affects. 50% of thereabout of America's energy is powered by coal. This affects deep mining also, not just mountain top mining. Without EPA permits, deep mining sites can't dump their slurry (waste products from the preparation plant) in slurry ponds. Since EPA is not letting anyone sign permits as or right now, this stops deep mining as well. If mountain top mining and deep mining are haulted, then how much percent of America's energy will be instantly taken away?

This action was obviously not thought through.

lol, what a joke. If anyone honestly thinks that reclaimed mountains are anywhere near the quality of the mountian before mining, you are either brainwashed, or ignorant.

Take a biology course, or more specifically an ecology or conservation course, or just do some studying and read about edge effects, erosion, run off, etc. Reclaimed mountians are not "reclaimed" at all.

I dont think MTR can or should be stopped at this exact moment, but we should be doing everything in our power to reduce the number of MTR mines in the very near furture. The effects of MTR have been ignored for too long, hoepfully that will change and we can start the process of getting away from coal and MTR before it is too late.