[Coach_Owens87]

No I'm not saying that at all! The Buffer Zone law was never intended to include Intermittion or Ephemeral streams, when Judge Chambers made his ruling, which is the reason behind the clarification issue with the buffer zone. The coal industry does not feel that they are in violation of the law, because these streams are not included in the buffer zone law.

Blaming this "clarification" ruling on Judge Chambers is absurd. The bush administration has been trying to change this ruling since 2003. That year they changed the meaning of "fill" material to allow mining waste to be dumped into streams. This is what caused the later ruling by judge chambers, all he was doing was obeying the laws.

The bush administration hasn't been enforcing the buffer zone rule since they've been in office, which has lead to an estimated 500 miles of streams being destroyed, so this so called "clarification" is really just making their actions legal.