"Rep. John Yarmuth, the sole Democrat in the Kentucky congressional delegation, is seeking to halt all new mountaintop coal removal mining permits until federal officials investigate potential health effects," Lesley Clark reports for McClatchy. "His co-sponsors include Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, the sponsor of the Green New Deal, a sweeping plan to combat the effects of climate change."
In a Natural Resources subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Michael McCawley, an associate professor in West Virginia University's Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, testified that he thought the study got canceled because the administration knew the results would look bad for the mining industry, Kate Mishkin reports for the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia. "I think they believed that the study was going to come out with evidence that supported banning mountaintop mining, that they knew what the evidence was," McCawley said. "And the reason why I know that they know what the evidence was is [that] I know most of the panel members; they’re colleagues of mine."
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study was funded in 2016 under the Obama administration, but halted in August 2017, seven months after Trump took office. The Interior Department initially claimed it was reviewing all projects costing more than $100,000 because of budget cuts, but that wasn't true. Nearly a year later, the Pacific Standard reported that a top Interior official met repeatedly with coal-industry lobbyists just before canceling the study.
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