Besehar So Happy We Are All Going to Die From Poisoned Water

A: Clean water regs never killed a single coal mining job and overturning them won't add a single coal mining job.

B: New clean water regs would probably save lives; the lack of them for the past several decades has certainly claimed lives.

C: No, people who work in coal country can NOT afford to buy bottled water to drink, cook and wash with.

D: Mining-poisoned water does not recognize county, state or even national borders. If there's a poisoned water source on this continent, you're imbibing it somehow. So it behooves you to work to minimize them everywhere.

E. Kentucky Governor Steve Cowardly Waste of Oxygen Beshear is a piece of shit. 

James Bruggers at the Courier: 

A federal judge has thrown out one of the key provisions of the Obama administration’s crackdown on pollution from coal mining in Appalachia, saying the EPA went too far in trying to impose tough new water-quality guidelines for states such as Kentucky.

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Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and the Kentucky Coal Association had joined the lawsuit by the National Mining Association and other plaintiffs, arguing that the EPA’s guidance had in essence established formal standards that mining companies had difficulty meeting. 

The mining association’s president, Bill Bissett, declared victory, saying the judge’s ruling could begin to ease a mining permit logjam that he said has tied up “at least 46 Eastern Kentucky mining operations.” 

Beshear likewise praised the ruling. 

“Today’s action by the federal court is a victory for coal miners who have seen mines close and their jobs put in jeopardy due, in part, to the actions of the federal EPA,” he said in a written statement. 

But environmentalists lamented the court’s ruling. 

“It’s a big deal, and it is bad news,” said Judy Petersen, executive director of the Kentucky Waterways Alliance, a group that advocates for clean water. “Unfortunately the decision seems to follow the pattern we’ve seen lately that appears to place further limits on the EPA’s ability to protect the public interest and public health.”

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[The mining association’s president, Bill] Bissett said the issue could also be resolved during the presidential election, which could bring a change of administrations in Washington. 

Water-poisoning, mountain-destroying, job-killing coal mine owners for Romney!