The EPA has initiated a move in order to protect the wildlife and the drinking water in Central Appalachia. They have proposed to restrict the largest mountaintop mine as a measure as it is believed that the harm will prove out to be irreversible.

It has been reported that the mine has already been tied with many controversies. The agency has planned to strongly prohibit the mine or let it continue its operations with restrictions.

After an investigation, the EPA revealed that mining coal in the area in the Logan County, West Virginia, would lead to dumping of waste into six valleys and seven miles of streams which will directly lead to destruction of 2,278 acres of forest and polluted water in the neighboring streams.

The EPA in a statement said, “It proposed to veto the Spruce No. 1 mine because it would pollute drinking water and threaten fish and other wildlife that depend on the streams that would be buried by mining debris”.

According to the assessments of the Landscape and the various sites, it has disclosed that mountaintop mining which has taken place in the past and the present one have lead to huge, irreplaceable loss of scarce resources in the Coal Rivers Basin.