Fifty five cents a ton.
That’s how little the changes would have cost Arch Coal company to implement – changes that would have slashed the environmental impact of its mountaintop removal (MTR) Spruce Mine in half. Now that the Environmental Protection Agency has pulled its permit the company is crying foul, but a newly released report shows that the company had a chance to change – and blew it.
(Crossposted at RedGreenAndBlue.org)