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Clean Water Advocates Sue to Stop Political Pressure to Bail Out Fracked Gas Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, community and clean water advocates sued to reverse a U.S. Forest Service decision rushed through behind undue political pressure from the lame duck Trump administration. The…
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Propublica: This Billionaire Governor’s Coal Company Might Get a Big Break From His Own Regulators
West Virginia environmental regulators are proposing to reduce the fines that a coal company owned by the state’s governor could pay for water…
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Canceled
Duke Energy and Dominion Energy said that lawsuits, mainly from environmentalists groups aimed at blocking the project — many of which were represented by Appalachian Mountain Advocates — had…
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Conservation Groups Act to Oppose Rappahannock Electric Co-op’s Proposed Rate Increase
Environmental Group Claims Utility’s Plan is Unjust For Low-Income Customers RICHMOND, Virginia– Yesterday, the Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission granted Sierra Club’s Motion to Participate as a Respondent…
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Court: WV’s Refusal to Comply With Clean Water Act Triggers EPA’s Duty to Step In
Today a federal judge ordered EPA to act within 30 days in light of the failure by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (“WVDEP”) to comply with the…
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Groups ask for Atlantic Sunrise pipeline approval to be taken back, cite lack of need
Appalachian Mountain Advocates has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to rescind its approval of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline, a 198-mile pipeline that would help transport fracked gas…
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Students File Lawsuit Against George Mason University for Donor Records
Appalmad and Transparent GMU Seeks to Make GMU Foundation Comply with Freedom of Information Act Fairfax, VA – This morning, George Mason University students filed a…
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Groups Celebrate Protections for PA State Park from Consol Mining Permit
Greene County, PA — The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) has forbidden Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company (Consol) from mining within 100 feet of Kent Run…
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Appeals Court Upholds EPA Veto of Massive Spruce No. 1 Mountaintop Removal Mine Permit
Today Appalachian Mountain Advocates and our partners helped to win another round in the decades-long legal battle over the Spruce No. 1 mine, the largest mountaintop removal mining site…
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WV judge bars pipeline surveyors from private property
Appalachian Mountain Advocates scored a critical victory yesterday when a West Virginia judge ruled that the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline is not for public use under West Virginia law…
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