Today the EPA approved a permit for surface coal mining in Ohio.  This is a big blow to the environment, to future generations of Americans,  and to the natural resources of the United States.   This is our country, but it seems that Big Coal and other polluters feel they own it, and can ruin our country however they wish.

Read more about this ruling and listen to Lisa Jackson speak at the National Press Club at Climate Files Radio.

The press release for this decision is here.

EPA Approves Ohio Surface Coal Mine — “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded its review of a Clean Water Act permit application for Oxford Mining Company’s proposed Kaiser Mathias mine in Tuscarawas County, Ohio and has approved the project.”

This is the EPA not relying on science for its decisions.  This is the EPA stalling a real decision on surface coal mining, while global warming continues to escalate and the government officials spin their wheels in Washington.  Lisa Jackson claims the EPA cannot regulate coal mining.  That’s not ‘Yes We Can’, that’s a weak excuse to allow coal lobbyists to continue their choke-hold over the federal government.  They are selling out future generations for more coal profits.

It’s time we take our country — literally — back from the polluters.