aw58461 July 16th, 2009

Take Action On Ison Rock Ridge

Please send a letter to the US EPA immediately praising their action against mountaintop removal coal mining and urging them to stop to Ison Rock Ridge mine in Wise County. Please act today.

The EPA is accepting comments via a web form located below. The following is suggested comments which you are welcome to submit and/or edit as you see fit. To copy the letter highlight the text and click your “Edit” menu and then “Copy”, then click in the “COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS” box on the epa form below the text then click “Edit” menu and then “Paste”.

Also, let us know that you’ve submitted comments by sending an email to eileen@hrsierraclub.org.

TO: Shawn Garvin, Administrator, US EPA Region 3
RE: Ison Rock Ridge Mountaintop Removal Mine, Wise County, VA NPDES Permit No. 1003841

Dear Administrator Garvin,

I am very concerned about the destruction of the mountains of Appalachia and the pollution of our waters by mountaintop removal coal mining. I want to thank the US EPA for its actions taken thus far in setting guidance on water quality standards that protect our waters from mountaintop removal coal mining.

I also appreciate that the coal industry will object to any environmental protections that interfere with their ability to get coal from the earth by the cheapest and most destructive means, mountaintop removal coal mining.

I urge you to stand by the agency guidance for specific conductivity and deny or veto any permits that fail to meet these standards. Specifically, thank you for your review of the Ison Rock Ridge permit in Wise County, Virginia. I support US EPA’s objections to that permit and urge you to not allow that mining project to proceed.

Sincerely,

[your name]
[address]
[city, state, zip]

Got coal dust in your community? Concerned about mining impacts but aren’t ready to join SAMS?

We encourage you to speak out to the regulatory agencies that are supposed to look out for the health of our communities. Make a complaint, tell them that you are being impacted.  Speak up and let them know we deserve better.

Department of Environmental Quality- 276-676-4800

The Department of Mines Minerals and Energy – 276-523-8199

Office of Surface Mining – 276 523-4303

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