EPA’s Actions: “Unsettling to Say the Least”
Mar 5 – “When one environmental agency looks at what another is doing – and sounds an alarm – it should serve as notice that something is really amiss,” says an editorial in the Beckley Register-Herald. The alarm on the EPA’s actions was sounded at a West Virginia Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee meeting, where Sen. Mike Green (D-Raleigh) found the EPA’s lack of coordination at the state level and attempts to sidestep mining permit regulations to be “unsettling to say the least.” The EPA’s refusal to coordinate with state regulators on standards or mining permit guidelines is viewed as an attempt to stop mining and destroy jobs in the West Virginia. “…it’s no secret that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is systemically trying to shut down West Virginia as we know it by targeting the mining industry,” says the editorial. Read more in the Beckley Register-Herald.
