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In early September, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would block all pending mountaintop mining permits until it completes a more thorough environmental review of each project. The announcement affects 79 proposed coal-mining projects scattered throughout the Appalachian states, where our Cumberland Plateau BioGem is located. NRDC has long opposed the dirty practice of mountaintop removal mining, which has destroyed entire mountaintops and forests and poisoned pristine lakes and rivers. The Obama Administration's decision is a promising first step, but NRDC will continue to pressure the agency to put a permanent stop to all future mountaintop mining.
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Standing shoulder to shoulder with automakers, states and environmentalists, President Obama has forged a clean-car deal that all three groups can get behind. In September, the administration unveiled its proposed new national standards for cars and trucks that by 2016 will cut global warming pollution from new vehicles by 30 percent, improve fuel economy to an average of about 35.5 miles per gallon and save drivers thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles -- all while adopting a "size-based" standard favored by U.S. automakers. NRDC fought for years in court, state houses, Congress and corporate boardrooms to win wide-ranging support for the measures.
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