Article: West Virginia Plans to Rewrite Mining Stream Buffer Rule.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Article: PROPOSAL WOULD REVISE 'STREAM BUFFER ZONE' ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... protections in the existing "Stream Buffer Zone" rule apply only to intermittent ... activities subject to the "Stream Buffer Zone" requirement and the circumstances ... Statement. Revisions to "Stream Buffer Zone Rule" A "Stream Buffer Zone ...

Article: Opposition mounts as Bush finalizes stream 'buffer ...
Charleston Gazette;  December 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... backed changes in the stream "buffer zone" rule. However ... valley fills from the buffer zone rule. A companion ... supported the existing buffer zone rule and raised serious ... stated that the current stream buffer rule is necessary to ...

Article: Blasting forward.(NORTH AMERICA)(Stream Buffer ...
Earth Island Journal;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... administration has made changes to the Stream Buffer Zone Rule, a 1983 regulation that ... softened rule. But even while the buffer zone rule has been in place, adherence ... administration's effort to repeal the Stream Buffer Zone Rule. Fully 66 percent oppose ...

Article: GOV. BESHEAR OBJECTS TO FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH WAIVER OF ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... dumped, a so-called "Excess Spoil minimization - Stream Buffer Zone" rule. The proposed rule change would erase that ... Congressman Chandler in a statement. "Undermining the Stream Buffer Zone would endanger our water and threaten the health ...

Article: Environmental groups challenge stream buffer ...
Clean Water Report;  January 7, 2009 ;     669 words ... ... a legal challenge to the Bush administration's stream buffer zone changes, which the groups deem a "midnight regulation ... activities within the previously established 100-foot buffer zone around flowing streams. "This is among the 11th ...

Article: Another Setback for Mountaintop Removal: 'Overwhelming Majority' ...
U.S. Newswire;  February 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... of Surface Mining (OSM) proposal to weaken the Stream Buffer Zone (SBZ) rule and unleash more mountaintop removal ... suggesting that Americans have nothing to fear from a stream buffer zone rule change. The good news is that 43,000 Americans ...

Article: Bush's 11th hour regulatory changes: EPA approves stream ...
Clean Water Report;  December 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... The Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Council on Environmental Quality approved the revised stream buffer zone rule that will make it easier for mining companies to dump their waste (CWR, October 29). This approval was ...