Tennessee Mountain Dreams – Dreams and Resources of the Appalachian Mountains

This morning’s email brought me this message from iLoveMountains.org…

Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed eliminating a streamlined permitting process — known as Nationwide Permit 21, or NWP 21– which allows coal companies to seek quick approval for their mountaintop removal coal mining projects.

Roughly one-third of mountaintop removal coal mining projects [...]