Mining - Entries in Restoration
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High Time for Sentencing Law Reform in West Virginia?In West-by-gone-Virginia: battery, $100, coal protest, $100,000, judicial discretion...priceless.…
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New Reports “Debunk the Myth” of Mountaintop Removal ReclamationNew reports scrutinized 410 former MTR sites, and found that only about 25-45 sites have post-mining development on them.…
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Oregon’s Only Coal Fired Power Plant Under Pressure in Re-Permitting ProcessThe power station near Boardman, Oregon has been operating on an expired Title V permit for four years. As DEQ proceeds with re-permitting, pressures to control pollution may accelerate the plant's demise.…
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Moving Forward to Rebuild Marsh Fork Elementary, Away from Coal Sludge PondMarsh Fork Elementary in Naoma, WV is threatened by a multi-billion gallon coal slurry impoundment. The state and private philanthropists are pooling resources to move it out of harm's way.…
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Citizens File Lawsuit Against Massey Energy for Water PollutionFour environmental groups have filed suit, on the authority of the Clean Water Act and Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, to bring justice upon Massey Energy for more than 250 unlawful discharges that pollute waters near its mining sites. …
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Explosion Kills at Least 25 in West Virginia, in Worst Mine Disaster in 26 Years25 miners are dead and 4 missing after an explosion, Monday, in Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch South mine, near Montcoal, West Virginia.…
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EPA Announces New Clean Water Standards for Surface Mining PermitsBREAKING NEWS: The Environmental Protection Agency is using the best available science to set standards for mining permits, under the Clean Water Act.…
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Massey Energy to Help Marsh Fork Elementary RelocateCEO Don Blankenship pledged $1 million to assist the relocation of Marsh Fork Elementary away from the coal prep plant and slurry dam that have hung over it for decades. To concerned locals, that's just the beginning of the remedy.…
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Coal’s Days in Oregon are Numbered40% of Oregon's electricity comes from one coal burning plant, but environmental and health groups are trying to change that. …
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Breaking: RAN Protest Outside EPA Continues in High SpiritsEPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has never seen a mountaintop removal site from the air. Fifteen activists hope to change that soon.…
