Newspapers and Bloggers Across the Land Editorialize Against Buffer Zone Change

As BushCo moved into its final daze er, days dozens of newspapers and bloggers nationwide editorialized on Bushs "parting gifts" (rule changes and executive orders) to his assorted big-polluting funders and corporate cronies.

Front and center was Bushs proposed gutting of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule. The Boston Herald summed up the sentiment across the nation:

"The Interior Department is proposing to weaken into insignificance the one paper barrier to the long-standing and highly objectionable practice of mining coal in Appalachia by cutting off the tops of mountains above the coal and throwing the debris into streams.

"The new rule faces only one major hurdle approval by the Environmental Protection Agency.

"We join with environmentalists everywhere in hoping EPA finds reason to stop this vandalism."

Those of us living in America's Energy Sacrifice Zone (aka West Virginia) join in that hope.