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  • Conservation Groups Act to Oppose Rappahannock Electric Co-op’s Proposed Rate Increase

    Posted by Kate Asquith on October 3, 2017

    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

    Posted by Kate Asquith on February 14, 2017

    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

    Posted by Kate Asquith on February 14, 2017

    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

    Posted by Kate Asquith on February 9, 2017

    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

    Posted by Kate Asquith on January 24, 2017

    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

    Posted by Kate Asquith on July 19, 2016

    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

    Posted by danrad on August 6, 2015

    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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  • Verdict in Fola lawsuit confirms harm from conductivity

    Posted by danrad on February 4, 2015

    In late January, U.S. Circuit Judge Robert?Chambers once more found that high conductivity levels resulting from pollution flowing from mountaintop removal mining operations harm the biological integrity of streams…


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  • Selenium settlements resolve multiple lawsuits

    Posted by danrad on January 15, 2015

    On Dec. 19, 2014, Appalachian Mountain Advocates announced three settlements with Central Appalachian coal companies that will require the companies to treat unlawful


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  • Judge agrees that conductivity pollution hurts streams

    Posted by danrad on November 11, 2014

    Appalachian Mountain Advocates has been pursuing a number of legal cases designed to show that mining operations that cause high levels of conductivity downstream are violating water quality standards…


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