[Coach_Owens87]

Well you could have just easily researched the topic and found out about it yourself, but I guess since you are incapable of doing that I will have to answer the question.

This article im going to show was written by John Cole, The new york times also did a story on this, and I believe the Lexington Herald leader also ran a front page article on this yesterday.

"The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday that would enshrine the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams.

It has been used in Appalachian coal country for 20 years under a cloud of legal and regulatory confusion.

The new rule would allow the practice to continue and expand, providing only that mine operators minimize the debris and cause the least environmental harm, although those terms are not clearly defined and to some extent merely restate existing law.

The Office of Surface Mining in the Interior Department drafted the rule, which will be subject to a 60-day comment period and could be revised, although officials indicated that it was not likely to be changed substantially.

The regulation is the culmination of six and a half years of work by the administration to make it easier for mining companies to dig more coal to meet growing energy demands and reduce dependence on foreign oil."

The guy in the Interior department used to be involved heavily with mining before being given this job by bush. So it makes sense that he would draft this new rule. And since all officials in the EPA that oppose bush have resigned becuase they weren't allowed to there jobs, there is really no way for a government agency to oppose it.

But I guess everyone should think like you beef, and we should believe that bush would have no interest in helping out the coal industry when they donated to his party the last two elections.