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Appalmad Files Sharp Critique of Mountain Valley Pipeline
Late yesterday, Appalachian Mountain Advocates filed sharp, comprehensive comments eviscerating the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s flawed review of the impacts of and need for Mountain Valley Pipeline. In over…
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspends Dominion permit involving reactor at North Anna
Good coverage of great new for the Mattoponi River. Appalachian Mountain Advocates sent a letter on behalf of the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter notifying the…
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Groups Condemn FERC’s Review of Proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Federal regulators today released a draft environmental review for the proposed fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline that public interest advocates…
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New Appeal to Defend Ban on Fracking Waste in Fayette Co, WV
Yesterday we filed an appeal to help defend Fayette County’s ban on underground injections of fracking wastes. The County passed the ban on the disposal, storage or use of…
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Groups Secure Settlement Requiring Alpha Natural Resources to Fund Community Restoration Projects
Richmond, VA — Appalachian Mountain Advocates (on behalf of its clients Sierra Club, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition) negotiated a groundbreaking settlement with coal…
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Board upholds DEP chemical tank designations
Appalachian Mountain Advocates had a big win yesterday when the Environmental Quality Board upheld new safety standards passed to prevent a repeat of the January 2014 Freedom Industries, a…
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Groups sue WVDEP to urge abandoned mine cleanup
Appalachian Mountain Advocates is representing a coalition of conservation groups in legal action to hold the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection accountable for cleaning up abandoned coal mine…
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Conservation Groups Demand Protection for 420 West Virginia Streams in Jeopardy
Lewisburg, WV — Appalachian Mountain Advocates filed a formal warning to the federal Environmental Protection Agency this week that both EPA and the West Virginia Department of Environmental…
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OSM on Notice for Failing to Protect Against Threat of Bankrupt Coal Mines
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, community and environmental groups sent the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (“OSM”) notice of their intent to sue the agency if it…
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Verdict in Fola lawsuit confirms harm from conductivity
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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