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Arch Coal
6:19 pm
Fri January 14, 2011

EPA revokes permit for Arch Coal mine in W. Va.

Credit (via Flickr/iLoveMountains.org)
This mine in Pike County, Ky. uses mountaintop removal, the same process used in an Arch Coal mine in W. Va. that's come under fire from the EPA. (via Flickr/iLoveMountains.org)
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In addition to the story about mining you may have heard on NPR's All Things Considered this evening, a St. Louis-based coal company, Arch Coal, is in some trouble for one of their mines in West Virginia.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making good on a 9-month-old threat and revoking a permit for West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine.

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