Big Coal is at it again. This time, they are using their friends in Congress in an attempt to gut the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to protect Appalachian streams from mountaintop removal coal mining.

Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) is pushing an amendment that would strip EPA’s power to veto mountaintop removal coal mining permits, like they did in the case of the Spruce Mine in West Virginia — the largest mountaintop removal mine proposal in history. If that wasn’t enough, he’s proposing a second amendment that would dismantle most of the protections laid out in the Clean Water Act, leaving our waters even more vulnerable to pollution from coal mining!

If passed, these amendments would roll back years of progress toward stopping the wholesale destruction of Appalachian mountains, streams and communities by mountaintop removal coal mining.

This vote could happen as soon as Tuesday morning.

It’s imperative that you contact your senator now.