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Mountaintop removal mining has devastated West Virginia. Let's not allow deep sea mining to do the same to the ocean.
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Press Release April 5, 2019

Earthjustice Endorses Legislation to Protect Families from Mountaintop Removal Mining Health Effects

Trump administration cancelled NAS study examining potential links to negative health outcomes in 2017

Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining in which explosives are used to blast off the tops of mountains in order to reach the coal seams that lie underneath.
(Photo courtesy of OVEC)
Press Release July 25, 2018

Coal River Mountain Watch, Earthjustice Demand Answers from Trump Administration on Mountaintop Removal Study Shutdown

Administration halted study on public health risks without explanation in August 2017

Central to Appalachian identity and heritage, West Virginia's mountains are being destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.
(Photo Courtesy of OVEC)
Article July 25, 2018

Trump Stifles Science in Coal Country

The Trump administration doesn’t want us to know what’s making coal country sick.

Dal-Tex mountaintop removal mine near the community of Spruce Valley, Pigeon Roost Hollow West Virginia.
(Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition)
Press Release February 16, 2017

Trump Signs Attack on Clean Water into Law

Refusing to hold coal companies accountable for stream destruction, contamination

The Stream Protection Rule is obliterated, creating a tougher fight ahead for communities near coal mines.
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Article February 3, 2017

Congress Prioritizes Coal Interests Over Clean Streams

The Stream Protection Rule is obliterated, creating a tougher fight ahead for communities near coal mines

Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining in which explosives are used to blast off the tops of mountains in order to reach the coal seams that lie underneath.
(Photo courtesy of OVEC)
Press Release February 2, 2017

Congress Moves to Deny Water Protections from Communities Living near Coal Mining

Leaving clean water and communities at risk

Document January 31, 2017

Community Opposition letter to Congressional Attacks on Stream Protection Rule

Local, regional, and national environmental and community groups nationwide are calling on the Senate to stand strong against a legislative attack on clean water. The Stream Protection Rule requires monitoring to detect harmful chemicals in surface water and groundwater – information that’s crucial to the health and safety of communities leaving in proximity to coal-mining operations.

Polluter-backed members of Congress are bent on putting forth an agenda that eviscerates vital safeguards, such as protections for clean water.
(Courtesy of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth)
Article January 31, 2017

Clean Water Protections Under Attack in Early Days of 115th Congress

Polluter-backed members of Congress are bent on putting forth an agenda that eviscerates vital safeguards, such as protections for clean water.

Document January 27, 2017

Motion to Intervene Stream Protection Rule

Community and conservation groups file a motion to defend clean water against attacks in court. A coal company and thirteen states have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule.

Document January 26, 2017

Protect Clean, Safe Drinking Water from Congressional Attack

This the long-awaited Stream Protection Rule provides local communities with information they need about water contamination caused by nearby coal mining operations, and includes several important safeguards for clean water and the well-being of communities near coal mining operations. Lawmakers are seeking to eviscerate this common sense clean-water regulation using the Congressional Review Act, a back door tactic which allows Congress to erase recently finalized protections with little debate and zero public input.

Document January 25, 2017

Community and Conservation Groups Ask Congress To Defend Clean Water Protections

Over 70 local, regional, and national environmental and community groups nationwide are calling on lawmakers to stand strong against a legislative attack on clean water. The Stream Protection Rule requires monitoring to detect harmful chemicals in surface water and groundwater – information that’s crucial to the health and safety of communities leaving in proximity to coal-mining operations.

Rock Creek
(U.S. Forest Service)
Press Release January 18, 2017

Community and Conservation Groups To Defend Clean Water Against Coal Industry Attack

A coal company and the state of North Dakota have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule

A waterfall in the Appalachian mountains
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Press Release December 19, 2016

Obama Administration Finalizes Action to Protect U.S. Waterways and Communities from Destruction by Coal Industry

Stream Protection Rule offers modest updates to protect the Nation's water resources

The site of the Spruce No. 1 mine, in West Virginia.
(Photo Courtesy of Vivian Stockman / OVEC; Flyover courtesy SouthWings)
Press Release: Victory July 19, 2016

Appeals Court Upholds EPA Veto of Spruce No. 1 Mountaintop Removal Mine Permit

U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. affirms district court; finds U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reasonably and lawfully decided that huge mountaintop removal mine in WV would cause unacceptable environmental harm

The House and Senate are packing their environmental budget bills with poison pill riders that would harm America’s air, water and wildlife.
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Article July 15, 2016

Two Political Trainwrecks in the Making

The House and Senate are packing their environmental budget bills with poison pill riders that would harm America’s air, water and wildlife.

The Chevron Molycorp mine has tainted water supplies in northern New Mexico for decades, and taxpayers could end up on the hook for a large portion of the clean-up costs.
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Article April 12, 2016

Superfund Super-Polluters: Chevron Molycorp Mine, New Mexico

The Chevron Molycorp mine has tainted water supplies in northern New Mexico for decades, and taxpayers could end up on the hook for a large portion of the clean-up costs.

Document April 8, 2016

Spruce Mine Veto_Amicus Brief

Amicus brief for the D.C. Circuit court hearing in the second round of Mingo Logan’s case challenging EPA’s Spruce veto.

A waterfall in the Appalachian mountains
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Press Release January 12, 2016

House Passes Bill That Would Undermine Stream Protection Rules

Statement and resources from Earthjustice