ACTION ALERT: A data center blitz is coming–here’s how we push back

An aerial view of Davis, West Virginia, with the Tucker County Landfill and site of the proposed power plant in the upper left background. (Frank Gebhard/Allegheny Aperture Photo)

Question Corridor H at public hearing on Earth Day, April 22

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Judy Rodd, Executive Director, Friends of Blackwater, info@saveblackwater.org Olivia Miller, Program Director, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, olivia.miller@wvhighlands.org WARDENSVILLE, W.Va.—The West Virginia Division of Highways and Federal […]

American Rivers names Gauley River to America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2025, due to toxic coal mining pollution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 Contact: Hawk Hammer, National Communications and Media Director, Hhammer@americanrivers.org Andrew Young, Staff Attorney for the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA), ayoung@abralliance.org Dan Radmacher, Media Specialist, […]

ACTION ALERT: Defend the Monongahela – Stop Illegal Coal Hauling in Our Public Forests

A coal company is trying to turn our national forest into their private haul road—and it’s up to us to stop it. For over two years, the West Virginia Highlands […]

Town of Davis to host informational town hall on proposed Ridgeline Facility

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2025 DAVIS, W.Va.— The Town of Davis will hold a public informational town hall on the proposed Fundamental Data’s Ridgeline Facility, a large natural gas […]

Bankrupt coal company cited for releasing ‘sludge’ into West Virginia’s Gauley River watershed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2025 CONTACT Dan Radmacher, Media Specialist, (276) 289-1018, dan@appvoices.org Company run by Richmond-area financier Greg Whirley Jr. has received 113 citations in four years CHARLESTON, […]

ACTION ALERT: Oppose HB 2014 – Tucker County Data Center, No Local Say

This week, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy caught wind of a major natural gas fired power plant in the works—likely tied to a data center—that’s set to land just north […]

ACTION ALERT: Keep ORVs Out of Our State Parks and Forests

A new proposal in the West Virginia Legislature is once again taking aim at our state parks and forests. Senate Bill 711, which will be discussed in the Senate Transportation […]

West Virginia Senators Capito, Justice vote no on reinstating federal public lands staff and support for wildland firefighters

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 21, 2025 CONTACT: Olivia Miller, Program Director, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, olivia.miller@wvhighlands.org, (304) 704-2997 WASHINGTON — Late Thursday night, Senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Jim […]

Environmental Groups Sue to Challenge Mountaintop Removal Mine on Coal River Mountain

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Contact Vernon Haltom Executive Director, Coal River Mountain Watch 216-338-6003 vernon@crmw.net Willie Dodson Coal Impacts Program Manager, Appalachian Voices 276-870-5843 willie@appvoices.org Bianca Sanchez […]