Trump Admin. Halts National Academies' Mountaintop Mining Health Risks Study

Inside Climate News: The Trump administration has ordered a halt to an independent study looking at potential health risks to people living near mountaintop mining sites in Appalachia.

The U.S. Department of Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sent a letter to the National Academy of Sciences on Friday instructing it to cease all work on the study.

The study had been launched at the request of two West Virginia agencies, the state's Department of Environmental Protection and Bureau for Public Health.

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