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that force coal-ash impoundments to meet standards "substantially similar" to those required for other coal-waste dams under the 1977 SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act. The bill specifies the regulations must require coal-ash... Published: Thursday, January 15, 2009 Words: 632
of the lack of state and federal enforcement of the AOC standard. "Thirty years, and we are still looking for a definition of AOC," Rahall said at his committee's 2007 hearing. The National Mining Association, meanwhile, has touted... Published: Sunday, July 26, 2009 Words: 1618
decision that left mountaintop-removal mining unscathed than the Obama administration said it will not block permits for dozens of surfacemining projects, including mountaintop-removal mining. The double victory for the coal industry... Published: Sunday, June 07, 2009 Words: 550
removal. During a House hearing meant to focus on Clean Water Act enforcement problems, Jackson was questioned by both Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., and Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., about her agency's stepped up review of mountaintop-removal... Published: Friday, October 16, 2009 Words: 902
"These are not merely 'ugly landscapes' that need to be made more attractive," OSM Director Jeff Jarrett said during a July congressional hearing. "These are serious, life threatening, high-priority hazards that have been around for... Published: Sunday, October 19, 2003 Words: 1532
is supposed to be used to clean up coal mines that were abandoned before 1977, when the federal SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act was passed. In West Virginia, more than $375 million in AML money has been spent over the last... Published: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 Words: 724
in Appalachian and the West. But some industry officials in West Virginia complain that mines here have a hard time competing with huge surface mines in Wyoming. "It has always been my view that the federal government should not become... Published: Sunday, October 01, 2000 Words: 859
like the blast that killed 13 mine workers at an Alabama coal mine in late 2001. When Congress wrote the federal mine safety act in 1969, lawmakers set eliminating black lung as one of their central goals. Under the law, coal operators... Published: Sunday, September 19, 2004 Words: 1401
Office of SurfaceMining. In 1977, Rahall served on the House-Senate Conference Committee that wrote the final version of the federal SurfaceMining Control and Reclamation Act. Rahall represents the state's 3rd Congressional District,... Published: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 Words: 914
not anticipate operations having the character of mountaintop removal being conducted without the variance when passing the surfaceminingact," Rahall said in a May 1998 statement. "The public interest lies with having beneficial post-mining... Published: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 Words: 488