100 Groups Urge Senate Leadership Against Public Lands Sell-off in Budget Bill

WASHINGTON— More than 100 organizations urged senate leadership today to remove the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands from the Senate budget bill. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), […]

Federal court clears path for legal challenges to coal-hauling in Monongahela National Forest

WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal judge in Delaware ruled Tuesday in favor of two motions filed by conservation groups, allowing key legal and administrative actions to move forward to protect […]

Fundraiser launched to oppose proposed power plant and data centers in Tucker County

ACTION ALERT: Speak up to keep public lands in public hands!

ACTION ALERT: Save Wardensville and Great North Mountain

The West Virginia Division of Highways has released a Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the six-mile Wardensville-to-Virginia state-line stretch of Corridor H, with an estimated price tag of $474 million. Yet Virginia has no intention or […]

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 […]