Center for Biological Diversity1 年
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Endangered West Virginia Species From Coal Hauling
Along with sedimentation, coal hauling could degrade the Upper Gauley watershed with coal dust from loaded coal trucks. “The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has a 55-year history of working in ...
Center for Biological Diversity10 个月
Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Candy Darter From West Virginia Coal Hauling
WASHINGTON— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the harmful effects of coal hauling in the Monongahela National ...
Courthouse News Service10 个月
Conservation groups sue feds to protect endangered species from coal hauling in Monongahela
the Sierra Club and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. The groups say the company’s activities also put two bat species, the endangered northern long-eared bat and the endangered Indiana bat, at ...
Time7 年
Coal Mining Jobs Are Being Replaced By Clean Energy
As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s embrace of coal to what comes next By Justin Worland/Charleston, W.Va. Photographs by Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME It was a ...
PBS9 年
Women in the Mine Towns
In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first ... Depending on the coal camp, they were tasked with hauling water from nearby creeks or water pumps up to their homes ...