Press Releases and Media Advisories

November 17, 2009  Coal River Valley Residents to Speak Against Blasting on Coal River Mountain

September 30, 2009  International Peacemaker to Speak at Oct. 3 Ecumenical Event in South Charleston “Turning Over a New Leaf: Faith Community Green Event” Open to Public 

September 11, 2009  EPA Plans Scientific Scrutiny of New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits

August 26, 2009  Earthjustice Appeals to Supreme Court on Mountaintop Removal Mining Case 

August 18, 2009  Media Advisory for event on Sunday, August 23, 2009 

August 11, 2009  Army Corps of Engineers Approves Permit for Controversial WV Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine

June 29, 2009  Help select new nickname for the Mountain State.

June 24, 2009  The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Quality in Appalachia

June 22, 2009  Educational Rally on Sustainable Solutions for West Virginia

June 10, 2009 Still Moving Mountains CD Celebrates Coalfield Resistance to Mountaintop Removal

June 1, 2009  Concert Funds Campaign for Replacement of School Below Coal Sludge Dam, Promotes Clean Energy

May 24, 2009  Seventeen Arrested Saturday; Six Remain in Jail for Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Coal Sludge Impoundments; $2000 Cash Bail ‘Unprecedented”

May 23, 2009 More Arrests on Coal River Valley as Actions Against Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Dams Continue

May 23, 2009  11 Removed During Raleigh County, W.Va. Protests of Coal Sludge Dams and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining; More Protestors Expected This Afternoon

May 6, 2009  Grassroots citizens groups ask EPA to take over W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection; DEP places coal profits ahead of environmental justice for citizens

April 21, 2009  OVEC organizer Maria Gunnoe Wins Goldman Environmental Prize; Second Former Southern W.Va. Waitress to Win Environmental “Nobel”

April 19, 2009  The Faces and Places of Mountaintop Removal

March 24, 2009  Hope is alive in the mountains and valleys of Appalachia: Obama Administration EPA to scrutinize mountaintop removal permits

March 19, 2009  Underground Injection of Coal Slurry Not Meeting Public Health Standards

March 17, 2009  Bulldozers, Explosives Raze Mountains as W. Va. Groups Ask Obama Administration for Relief

March 11, 2009 Wyoming County Native Burns Featured In Charleston Event

February 28, 2009  Putnam County Activist Join Climate Protest in Washington, D.C.

January 13, 2009  Court sides with mountaintop removal coal mining industry; Conservationists urging new administration to stop mountaintop removal coal mining

January 13, 2009  Citizens to DEP: Prove that Sludge is Safe