House Approves Bill to Block Stream-Protection Rule for Coal

It’s not a “stream protection” rule so much as it is a “prevent underground coal mining” rule.

Part of Obama’s war on coal, the rule sets up underground buffer zones between ubiquitous streams that make it impractical to set up long-wall mining machines, the most efficient and productive method of underground coal mining.

The AP reports:

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