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Coal is America’s most abundant fuel, also its dirtiest. Earthjustice has battled for cleaner air with a wide variety of actions that seek to ensure strong regulations that are vigorously enforced. In addition, the organization works with people in Appalachia defending themselves and their surroundings from the ravages of coal mining, most recently a barbaric practice known as "mountaintop removal" mining.
David Baron is an attorney in Washington, DC, who spends much of his time battling to force the federal government to obey laws enacted to clean up (and keep clean) the air and water we all depend on.
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Massey Energy, a major player in mountaintop removal mining, must pay $20 million in fines for Clean Water Act violations
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the practice of dumping the rubble into streams from blown up mountaintops violates the Clean Water Act.
One of the dirtiest rivers in the nation finally has a chance to recover from years of pollution.
A federal court granted a temporary restraining order that limits expansive mining at several mountaintop removal mines currently being challenged by environmental groups in Appalachia
David Baron is an attorney in Washington, DC, who spends much of his time battling to force the federal government to obey laws enacted to clean up (and keep clean) the air and water we all depend on.
A DC court ruled for the third time in two years that the EPA illegally delayed adequate clean air requirements for the DC area.
Attorneys in Earthjustice's Washington, DC, office protected the Anacostia River from contamination from a former naval factory and helped block harmful development projects along the river.
