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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 Highway Administration…
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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,…
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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,…
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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 power…
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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, W.Va. — The West…
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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…
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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…
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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 Justice, R-W.Va., joined…
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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 Associate Press Secretary, Sierra Club bianca.sanchez@sierraclub.org Olivia Miller Program Director, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (304)…
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STATEMENT: Coal company’s bankruptcy filing reflects growing pressure to end reckless mining in West Virginia
Rocky Run Surface Mine in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Photo courtesy of Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2025 CONTACT Olivia Miller, Program Director, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy,…
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