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Stream protection rule

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So Trump got rid of the stream protection rule, which apparently prohibited coal mining facilities from dumping waste into streams.

How does not polluting waterways save jobs?
How does this affect sportsmen and fishermen downstream that fish and hunt on these waterways? Or eat meat from animals that drank from these waterways? Or for people whose water comes from these waterways?

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http://naturalresources.house.gov/oversight/coalregs/

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Almost immediately after taking office, the Obama Administration began rewriting a recently completed coal regulation, the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule (Rule). This unnecessary action, carried out through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) at the Department of the Interior, proposed to dramatically alter a regulation that that took over five years of environmental analysis and careful scientific consideration to complete.

Despite the fact that a thorough Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was conducted for the 2008 Rule, OSM hired another contractor to write an entirely new EIS for the Obama Administration’s efforts to rewrite the Rule. An Associated Press story revealed that this draft EIS concluded that the Obama Administration’s regulation could cost over 7,000 mining jobs and cause economic harm in 22 states. Shortly after this information was made public, the Obama Administration criticized and dismissed the contractor it had selected to conduct this analysis.

In February 2011, Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings and Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Chairman Doug Lamborn began an oversight investigation into the Obama Administration’s new coal regulations. The Committee is looking into serious questions regarding why this rewrite was initiated, how the rulemaking process itself is being managed, the Administration’s dismissal of the contractor, whether the political implications of the Rule are unduly influencing the process, and the impacts the proposed Rule will have on jobs, the economy, and coal production.



It's been fairly obvious to anyone willing to look a bit further that Obama was on a quest to kill coal.
Please don't dent the planet.

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brenthutch

***Calling brenthutch .



Sorry for the delay but the rivers and streams where I live are all on fire. What can I do for you?

thanks for that. When I read this thread I immediately thought that you could explain it and make sense of it best.

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