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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…
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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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The Sunrise Movement takes way in Huntington
By Jordan Howes, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy A new chapter of the Sunrise Movement has taken root in Huntington, West Virginia, bringing youth-led climate activism…
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EPA announces rollback of decades’ worth of regulations
By Chelsea Barnes, Appalachian Voices On March 12, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” a…
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The Cherry River uprising: A David vs. Goliath showdown to defend the Monongahela
Photo by Frank Gebhard, Allegheny Aperture Photo By Andrew Young, chair of the WVHC Extractive Industries Committee and staff attorney for the…
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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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