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Breaking News: Kentucky Filed Legal Action Against the ICG and Frasure Creek coal companies today
Due to violations of the Clean Water Act by ICG and Frasure Creek Mining companies, discovered and made public by Appalachian Voices and our partners in October, the state of Kentucky today filed its own legal action against the two companies. Kentucky charged ICG with 1,245 violations at 64 coal mining operations in 8 counties…
Read MoreConstruction Begins At Laurel Mountain Wind Farm.
This just in from the Public News Service. CHARLESTON WV – About 150 West Virginia union workers have started building the Laurel Mountain wind farm on the border of Barbour and Randolph counties. The contractor expects to have the 61 turbines done by the end of next summer. Investment in the entire project should total…
Read MoreAppalachian Voices calls for science-based ozone standards
Appalachian Voices has joined the American Lung Association and over 200 other health, faith, and conservation groups this week in asking the EPA to issue strict, science-based limits on ground-level ozone pollution. Ozone is the main irritant in the smog that affects cities large and small throughout our region, as well as prized natural areas…
Read MoreGreat Film on the TVA Coal Ash Spill Disaster Two Years Later
In September, 2010 I traveled back to Harriman, Tennessee to meet the Blue Planet Expedition crew and our research partners at the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute to tell the story of the TVA coal ash spill disaster two and half years after it happened. We spent a long day on the Emory River electroshocking fish…
Read MoreEPA Hears Comments about Potential Coal Ash Regulation as Hazardous Waste
Yesterday in Knoxville, TN the EPA held a public hearing on whether or not to regulate coal ash as a hazardous waste. Coal ash or coal combustion residuals (CCRs) are the stuff that is left over after coal is burned and constitutes one of the nation’s largest streams of waste. Coal ash contains many heavy…
Read MoreFixing What Has Been Destroyed
By Mike Alilionis Mountaintop Removal Campaign intern, Fall 2010 This past weekend, activists gathered on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia – home of Larry Gibson, keeper of the mountains. Larry, as well as activists from Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero hosted the Mountain Justice Fall Summit – a weekend of education, training, and momentum…
Read MoreGREAT NEWS! EPA Region 3 Recommends Veto of Spruce Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine
cross-posted from iLoveMountains.org Today, the Environmental Protection Agency took a historic step to protect Appalachian communities from the devastating effects of a mountaintop removal coal mine. After months of consideration, EPA’s Region 3 office announced its recommendation to veto the permit for the monstrous Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, W.V. (PDF) The decision…
Read MoreColorado Appalachian Treasures: Video Update!
Colorado Appalachian Treasures Tour: Video Update!
FOIA Lawsuit Filed to Gain Peabody Coal-Mining Records for Operations on Tribal Lands in Northeast Arizona
The Black Mesa Mine Read more about the suit at the following links below: The Navajo-Hopi Observer: FOIA lawsuit filed for Peabody coal records CoalDiver.org
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