"December 2018"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Sarah Saadoun"--Page 88. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"This report finds that Congress failed to mitigate health risks associated with this form of mining when it voted to roll back a modest regulation to protect streams from mining pollution. In reversing the regulation, Congress made it easier for the coal industry to destroy mountains and bury the waste rock in streams without monitoring or addressing the environmental impacts, while relying on a deeply flawed industry-funded study that was not subject to peer review. In addition, the Trump administration abruptly withdrew funding from a study that could have established broad consensus around the practice's health impacts in an apparently deliberate effort to prevent important information regarding the health risks of mountaintop removal mining from coming to light."--Publisher website, viewed December 20, 2018.
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