Press Releases Coal Mining
Conservation Groups Challenge U.S. Forest Service's Plan for Dirty Coal Strip Mining in National Grassland
WildEarth Guardians, the Sierra Club and the Powder River Basin Resource Council issued a legal challenge today to the U.S. Forest Service's misguided decision to open nearly 2,000 acres of the Thunder Basin National Grassland to harmful coal strip mining. The conservation groups charged that the U.S. Forest Service's consent to the South Porcupine coal lease fails to protect air quality, groundwater aquifers, and wildlife; ensure reclamation of strip-mined lands; and consider alternative options that would lessen climate disruption....(12/6/2011)