Despite opposition from the Governors of Tennessee and Kentucky, the Bush administration has just given the official green light to mountain top coal mining operations to bury streams with their mine debris.

http://moldychum.typepad.com/moldy_chum/2008/12/white-house-epa.html 

\http://wvgazette.com/News/200812010693

Approval by EPA and the White House Office of Management and Budget paved the way for Interior Department officials to finalize industry-backed changes in the 25-year-old stream “buffer zone” rule.

Not sure there is any habitat/fish to preserve by now, but this is an example of EPA and Interior approving mining interests while across the country (as I posted a few days ago) Salem, Oregn is at odds with Feds over drinking water v. fish. To me, a clear sign of varying standards and monied interests.