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Curbing our Appetite for Plastics

Archives: April 2018
  • Curbing our Appetite for Plastics

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    By Jackie Burns Earth Day theme and campaign The 48thannual earth day is fast approaching.  The theme this year is “ending plastic pollution.”  Why are these seemingly stable polymers a problem? And…


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  • Virginia Board Confirms: Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline Could Cost Virginians up to $2.3 billion

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    Virginia’s top economic watchdog has validated expert analysis showing that Dominion Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline could cost Virginia ratepayers up to $2.3 billion, refuting Dominion’s faulty claims that…


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  • Compliance Surveillance Finds Pipeline Problems

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    The March, 2018, issue of The Highlands Voice described the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI), developed by the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance and member organizations.  The idea is to monitor…


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  • Federal Budget Favorable to Public Lands

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    By Matt Kearns, West Virginians for Public Lands The 2018 federal budget was more than a “day late,” but it was not a “dollar short” when it came to public…


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  • Study Documents Consequences for Babies Born to Mothers Living Close to Fracking

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    The United States is in the midst of a fracking boom. Short for “hydraulic fracturing,” the technique for exploiting deep deposits of natural gas and oil was virtually unknown…


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  • Don Garvin, A Friend of Rivers, A Friend of Mine

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    By Angie Rosser, West Virginia Rivers Executive Director West Virginia Rivers Coalition lost a leader March 29; and I lost a mentor and special friend. I met Don Garvin when…


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  • Loss of a Friend and a Champion

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy is grieved to note the death of our friend and board member, Don Garvin. He represented WV Trout Unlimited within our group and worked…


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  • Celebrating Old Growth Forests

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    The Old Growth Forest Network has identified two sites in West Virginia and added them to its list of old growth forests. The first is Giant Tree Trail/Hollow at North…


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  • United States Department of the Interior No Longer Wants to Know the Connection between Surface Mining and Public Health

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has ended its study of the effects of mountaintop removal mining on public health.  The committee working on the project has…


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  • Environmental Analysis as the Budget Burns

    Posted by danrad on April 3, 2018

    By Hugh Rogers Last month, representatives from the Highlands Conservancy, Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, Friends of Blackwater, and Rivers Coalition met with Clyde Thompson, Monongahela National Forest Supervisor, and some…


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