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Plug pulled on mountaintop blasting
A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction that could block the largest mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia's history for another six months. Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Haden ordered state and federal regulators to withhold permits for the 3,100-acre Arch Coal Inc. permit near Blair, Logan County.
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Plug pulled on mountaintop blasting
A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction that could block the largest mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia's history for another six months. Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Haden ordered state and federal regulators to withhold permits for the 3,100-acre Arch Coal Inc. permit near Blair, Logan County.
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