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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
Lesley Clark

Trump scrapped health study of mountaintop mining. Some Democrats want to revive it

WASHINGTON _ Does mountaintop mining in Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky, harm the people living nearby? The Trump administration scrapped a study that would have found whether that was so.

Now Democrats are moving quickly to revive that study.

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.

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