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W.Va. Environmental Groups Take Steps to Sue Coal, Chloride Facilities for Pollution
The Sierra Club and a coalition of West Virginia-based environmental groups took the first step Tuesday toward taking legal action against companies…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA 40-year-old Federal Law Literally Changed the Appalachian Landscape
Forty years ago, President Jimmy Carter signed a law that literally changed the face of Appalachia.The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCourt: Mountaintop Removal Mines Polluted Streams
A federal judge has ruled that two Alpha Natural Resources mountaintop removal mines in southern West Virginia illegally polluted streams.U.S. District…
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