Trump administration cancelled NAS study examining potential links to negative health outcomes in 2017

Administration halted study on public health risks without explanation in August 2017

The Trump administration doesn’t want us to know what’s making coal country sick.

Refusing to hold coal companies accountable for stream destruction, contamination

The Stream Protection Rule is obliterated, creating a tougher fight ahead for communities near coal mines

Leaving clean water and communities at risk

Local, regional, and national environmental and community groups nationwide are calling on the Senate to stand strong against a legislative attack on clean water. The Stream Protection Rule requires monitoring to detect harmful chemicals in surface water and groundwater – information that’s crucial to the health and safety of communities leaving in proximity to coal-mining operations.

Polluter-backed members of Congress are bent on putting forth an agenda that eviscerates vital safeguards, such as protections for clean water.

Community and conservation groups file a motion to defend clean water against attacks in court. A coal company and thirteen states have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule.

This the long-awaited Stream Protection Rule provides local communities with information they need about water contamination caused by nearby coal mining operations, and includes several important safeguards for clean water and the well-being of communities near coal mining operations. Lawmakers are seeking to eviscerate this common sense clean-water regulation using the Congressional Review Act, a back door tactic which allows Congress to erase recently finalized protections with little debate and zero public input.

Over 70 local, regional, and national environmental and community groups nationwide are calling on lawmakers to stand strong against a legislative attack on clean water. The Stream Protection Rule requires monitoring to detect harmful chemicals in surface water and groundwater – information that’s crucial to the health and safety of communities leaving in proximity to coal-mining operations.

A coal company and the state of North Dakota have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule

Stream Protection Rule offers modest updates to protect the Nation's water resources

U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. affirms district court; finds U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reasonably and lawfully decided that huge mountaintop removal mine in WV would cause unacceptable environmental harm

The House and Senate are packing their environmental budget bills with poison pill riders that would harm America’s air, water and wildlife.

The Chevron Molycorp mine has tainted water supplies in northern New Mexico for decades, and taxpayers could end up on the hook for a large portion of the clean-up costs.

Amicus brief for the D.C. Circuit court hearing in the second round of Mingo Logan’s case challenging EPA’s Spruce veto.

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