Take Action: OSMRE must protect streams and communities by restoring the Stream Buffer Zone rule

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Take Action: Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement must protect our streams

Dumping mine waste into a valley fill on Kayford Mountain, WV

TAKE ACTION TODAY

Comment Deadline:
July 30, 2010

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Please comment today to help protect our streams from mountaintop removal coal mining!

The Obama administration is proposing new guidelines that would regulate how -- and whether -- America’s streams can be filled with waste from mining operations.

But before they’ll write the new regulations, the administration has decided to gather information for an Environmental Impact Statement. To that end, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is requesting your opinion on what requirements a new stream protection rule should include.

Use the form below to comment today and demand that our streams stay clean of toxic mining waste. We have written up some sample comments, but please add your own regarding the importance of streams and clean water in your community.

The OSMRE is also offering open house events across the US for citizens to provide input in person on these issues. Visit their website to learn more about these events.

The comment period has ended but THANKS for stopping by to TAKE ACTION!

Appalachian Citizens Law Center • Appalachian Voices • Appalshop • Coal River Mountain Watch • Heartwood • Keeper of the Mountains

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth • MACED • Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition • Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment

Sierra Club Environmental Justice • Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards • SouthWings • West Virginia Highlands Conservancy