Mountaintop Mining Permit Approved by EPA

When the Obama EPA took the unusual step of reviewing the 404 permits issued by the Corps to certain mountaintop mining sites, it was widely assumed that it would eventually veto the permits. However, the EPA recently approved one of the six permits it had been reviewing, allowing all 8 valley fills to be constructed. Ken Ward wrote about the permit issuance, although there is not much more to go on - there is apparently no public record explaining the EPA's decision.