AV’s Riverkeeper Initiates Case Against Kentucky Coal Companies

By Jillian Randel | December 6, 2010 |

Coalition Files NOIS Over Claims of Falsified Monitoring Data Appalachian Voices’ Upper Watauga Riverkeeper team assembled a lineup of heavy-hitting environmental groups in October to file suit against three Kentucky mining companies for violating the Clean Water Act. A coalition including Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Kentucky Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance filed a sixty…

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20,000 Clean Water Act Violations equals attack of the lawsuit!

By Jillian Randel | October 8, 2010 |

Yesterday’s press release made its rounds quickly as our WaterWatch team here at Appalachian Voices announced its legal action against three coal mining companies for violations (and violations… and violations…) of the Clean Water Act. ICG (International Coal Group) has already responded in a furious attempt to label us as an “anti-mining group” and accused…

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Busting Big Coal-Legal Action Initiated Today

By Appalachian Voices | October 7, 2010 |

The WaterWatch team at Appalachian Voices has teamed up with organizations and legal groups to launch legal action against three coal mining companies for violations of the Clean Water Act. Unbelievable in this day and age, I thought, when my assistant, Eric Chance, and I researched discharge monitoring reports from Kentucky and discovered potential instances…

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