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South Fork Coal Company: ‘a trail of pollution, debt and disregard’
By Willie Dodson, Appalachian Voices Cherry/ Gauley River named among America’s most endangered rivers; thousands oppose coal-hauling in the Monongahela National Forest;…
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Grassroots opposition builds against Tucker County’s proposed Fundamental Data power plant project
By Luanne McGovern, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Just over two months have passed since a small legal notice was published in The Parsons Advocate….
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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…
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Board highlights from April 2025
By John McFerrin, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy The April Board meeting of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy featured a possible threat to the organization,…
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Conservationists file new complaint over South Fork Coal Company’s impacts to National Forest
Bankrupt mining company continues to amass violations in 2025 By Willie Dodson, Appalachian Voices On April 11th, the Allegheny Blue Ridge…
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2025 legislative wrap-up
By Luanne McGovern, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy What more can be said about the 87th West Virginia Legislative Session that has not already been…
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Save Wardensville Coalition amplifies residents’ concerns over Corridor H’s impact on water, farms and Main Street
Environmental groups in both West Virginia and Virginia repeated a call for an updated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Wardensville to Virginia line section of the…
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Fundamental Data is heading for Davis and Thomas
Photo captured by Frank Gebhard at Allegheny Aperture. By Luanne McGovern, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
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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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