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Breathe. she saved miles and miles of appalachian streams from coal mining. and she was the face of the administration in the gulf of mexico after the bp oil disaster there. >> reporter: epa officials say jackson's use of a private email account with a persona based on a family pet and former relatives isn't unusual. her public account drew almost 2 hill emails and was impractical for her to use. the emails are subject to the freedom of information act. and some 3,000 of them are set to be released on monday pursuant to a request filed by chris horner of the competitive enterprise institute. >...

>> nobody really understands the impact that coal has in west virginia. it gives back to the schools, it gives back to the communities, it gives back to the infrastructure of the state. >> reporter: mountain top mining way to access close to the surface coal scene involves four steps. first, clearing the mountain. then blasting off the top of it. then digging out the coal. and finally putting the extra dirt and rocks into a valley fill as it's called. the obama administration is particularly concerned with water that flows through the valley fills and in to streams. e.p.a. administrator lisa j...

>> nobody really understands the impact that coal has in west virginia. it gives back to the schools, it gives back to the communities, it gives back to the infrastructure of the state. >> reporter: mountain top mining way to access close to the surface coal scene involves four steps. first, clearing the mountain. then blasting off the top of it. then digging out the coal. and finally putting the extra dirt and rocks into a valley fill as it's called. the obama administration is particularly concerned with water that flows through the valley fills and in to streams. e.p.a. administrator lisa j...