Category: Virginia
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Five Arrested at Mountaintop Removal Protest
“Alpha is only profitable because they’re allowed to gamble with our lives—and we’re the ones who pay the cost of their negligence and toxic pollution …
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Lobster Boat vs. Coal Ship
The captain of the Energy Enterprise called us on the radio, shortly after we spoke to the police. He said the ship was carrying American coal from West Virginia, and he didn’t understand what were protesting. After Jay explained that burning domestic …
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Is Your State Home to One of the 20 Worst Water Polluters?
“This report reveals that a small number of entities account for much of the hazard posed by water pollution. By strengthening key environmental protections, we can begin to stop this toxic flood and ensure that communities have access to safe, clean, …
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Moving Beyond Coal in Central Appalachia
Appalachian Voices By Brian Sewell The litany of voices pointing to the writing on the wall for the Central Appalachian coal industry continues to grow. They’re saying the same thing in almost every way imaginable, and have been for some time. Watching coal production decline and demand shift as other energy sources out-compete coal domestically,…
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Appalachians Rally in DC to Demand Clean Water and an End to Mountaintop Removal
APPALACHIA RISING — Citizens from across the country traveled to the nation’s capitol today to urge an end to mountaintop removal coal mining, a radical form of strip mining in Appalachia that has destroyed more than 500 mountains and buried or poisoned more than 2,000 miles of streams in Central Appalachia …