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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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Conservation groups condemn recent mass firings at US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 16, 2025 CONTACTOlivia Miller, Program Director, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, (304) 704-2997, olivia.miller@wvhighlands.orgAndrew Young, Staff Attorney, Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance, (434) 202-4397, ayoung@abralliance.org “Here is your…
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Federal regulators shut down illegal WV coal haul road—Interior quietly reopens it at company’s request
Coal trucks travel along Haulroad #2 in the Monongahela National Forest. (Photo courtesy Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance Air Force) By Olivia Miller, West Virginia Highlands…
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A call to protect our public lands—and our future
By Olivia Miller, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy The Monongahela National Forest is among West Virginia’s most cherished places—a realm of misty spruce groves, deep…
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Meet our newest Organizational Director for the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, Mike Jones
By Jordan Howes, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Go ahead and introduce yourself. I’m Mike Jones, currently based in Morgantown, and work…
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Carbon dioxide injection program approved over citizen objections
By John McFerrin The United States Environmental Protection Agency has approved West Virginia’s application as the primary agency for regulating Class VI injection wells…
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Federal regulators issue notice to DEP for failing to enforce environmental protections at Greenbrier County coal mines
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A notice issued by federal coal mining regulators today outlines the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s failures to address persistent problems at a set of…
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West Virginia DEP Suspends Bluestone Coal’s Mining Permit for Poca Surface Mine
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has suspended the mining permit for Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine in Wyoming County. The nearly 600-acre mountaintop…
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