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EPA proposes blocking West Virginia mountaintop mine
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed to halt the largest mountaintop mine in Central Appalachia, saying the project would pollute drinking water and harm wildlife in mountain streams, and that the damage to the mountains would be irreversible. Despite the strong language, however, the EPA’s action only begins another lengthy process about [...]
EPA to join investigation of DuPont Belle plant leaks
by Ken Ward Jr. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials are planning to join the growing investigation of safety concerns at DuPont Co.’s chemical plant in Belle, W.Va., following a string of leaks including one that killed a worker. Two teams of EPA inspectors plan to visit the plant next week. One will be looking into [...]
Meet me at Starbucks: EPA’s secret rendezvous with 3M
by Ken Ward Jr. The last we heard, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials had held a couple of days of closed-door meetings with folks from DuPont Co., listening to DuPont’s pitch against tougher regulation of perfluorinated chemicals like PFOA (C8) and PFOS. Now, it turns out that those meetings, held in October at EPA headquarters [...]
