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In January 2011, William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst with the the Competitive Enterprise Institute, charged that the [[Environmental Protection Agency]]'s (EPA) revocation of a permit for a West Virginia [[mountaintop removal]] mining operation - [[Spruce 1 Mine]] - "would trade jobs for protection of an insect that lives for a day and isn't even an endangered species."<ref>Edward Flattau, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-flattau/corporate-hyperbole_b_811938.html "Corporate Hyperbole"] HuffPo, Jan. 21, 2011.</ref> The EPA, however, did not veto the permit because of a bug, but because the operation would have "buried more than six miles of high-quality streams" and "polluted downstream waters as a result," with no inadequate mitigations offered by petitioner [[Arch Coal]].<ref name=ct>Ken Ward Jr., [http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2011/01/13/breaking-news-epa-vetoes-spruce-mine-permit/ "Breaking news: EPA vetoes Spruce Mine permit"] Coal Tattoo, Jan. 13, 2011.</ref>