Tag: West Virginia
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Stripmining Black History Month
JEFF BIGGERS — As schools, communities and politicians across the country celebrate Black History Month in February, they will be remiss if their lessons don’t include the coal fields of Fayette County, West Virginia. There, in the 1890s, a teenage African American …
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Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION — With hundreds of thousands of fracking wells and waste injection sites in the U.S., it’s likely that our food supply already contains water, plants and animals contaminated with fracking chemicals. While we hear a lot about …
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Is Fracking Wastewater Being Dumped into Coal Mines in Western Pennsylvania?
PUBLICSOURCE — She said that with the amount of natural gas drilling and coal mining going on in Greene County, it’s better to question things than to turn a blind eye …
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Ohio to Gov. Cuomo: We Are Not New York’s Dumping Ground
CENTER FOR HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE — In the letter, delivered today to Gov. Cuomo, citizens and communities across Ohio sent a clear message to the State of New York: Ohio does not want to serve as the dumping ground for …
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The Biggest No-Brainer Bill of the Year—Moratorium on Mountaintop Removal
JEFF BIGGERS — “Every American has a right to live and work in a community free from environmental health risks. And it is our duty to ensure that this right is not infringed upon by industries that consider community health and environmental protection to be less important than their profit margins …