Editorial - More Sadness for Appalachia - NYTimes.com

Editorial - More Sadness for Appalachia - NYTimes.com: "The Bush administration is writing one more sad chapter in the long, tortured history of Appalachia’s coal-rich hills. Last week, the Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining proposed a revision, amounting to a repeal, of one of the last regulatory protections against an environmentally ruinous mining practice called mountaintop removal."