Corps of Engineers violated Clean Water Act by allowing West Virginia stream and river destruction

Challenge to West Virginia mines will affect dozens of pending mining permits in Appalachia

Appalachian communities win challenge to state permit, but still seeking federal protection from devastating mines and pollution

Appalachians also overwhelmingly support increasing clean water protections

Associate Attorney Neil Gormley took a trip to West Virginia to visit partners and clients and to see the effects of mountaintop removal mining first-hand. As he explains, his visit prompted questions about the relationship between this destructive practice and regional poverty.

The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights has concluded a visit to communities in West Virginia to explore the human rights cost of mountaintop removal mining. In West Virginia on Thursday of last week (April 25), the UN Working Group conducted morning meetings with officials at the West Virginia Department of Environmental…

Coalfield residents living near mountaintop removal mining sites have long suspected this terrible, destructive practice is hurting our health.
I first started thinking about it during the long fight to replace the Marsh Fork Elementary School, which sat at the foot of a huge mountaintop removal mining site near my home in Peachtree Hollow.

Conservationists urging new administration to stop mountaintop removal coal mining

Oppose lawsuit filed by National Mining Association obstructing clean water in Appalachia

Obama administration should take note and follow science on pending permits

Last Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment held an absurdly one-sided hearing entitled “EPA Mining Policies: Assault on Appalachian Jobs – Part I.” I’ve never heard so much agreement in Congress — but that was, of course, because the only people allowed to speak were chosen to speak because they were already…

Obama administration should take note and follow science on pending permits

Yesterday, one of the nation’s top coal companies, Patriot Coal, announced that it is getting out of the business of mountaintop removal mining. The decision comes out of a settlement with several Appalachian community groups—West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Sierra Club, represented by Appalachian Mountain Advocates—requiring Patriot to clean up toxic selenium…

Clean Water Act violated in issuance of permits for mining

Voters feel environment deteriorating, oppose push to repeal Stream Buffer Zone rule

Agency announces further environmental review of dozens of permits, citing harmful impacts to waterways, legal concerns

Fast-track approach to mountain destruction is suspended

Court rejects coal industry’s challenge to Obama Administration’s effort to rein in mountaintop removal mining