OVEC - Help defend our water: End mountaintop removal coal mining, deep shale fracking pollution; promote renewable energy.

Rover Pipeline Construction Disrupts Community Near Sistersville, WV
Growing a Better Future: Project Plant
What kind of energy future do we want?
Our Moral Imperative is to Protect Water, Not Fossil Fuel Corporations
Fracking for gas in deep shale fracks up your neighborhood!
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Mountaintop removal is flat out nuts.

Who We Are

OVEC (the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition) formed in 1987 to stop a toxic waste dump/incinerator proposed for a low-income community near Huntington, WV. We won that campaign. By supporting organized voices and empowered communities, we’ve been winning environmental and social justice campaigns ever since. Our members and volunteers are crucial to our work. Join OVEC!

Check It Out!

Take Action to Update Human Health Protection in WV’s Water Quality Standards – SB 163

WV Senate: Pass the Cancer Registry Bill!

Urge Senate President Mitch Carmichael to support the PPA bill

Oppose the Ethane "Cracker" Plant in Dilles Bottom, OH; Oppose the Petrochemical Storage Hub

A FORMER COAL LOBBYIST SHOULD NOT LEAD THE EPA

This Legislative Session: Support the Pro-Democracy Anti-Corruption Platform

Featured Events

February 21: Say No to Rockwool During Its Huntington Lunchtime Visit

6:30 pm, February 22: UUC Huntington and OVEC screen In The Hills and Hollows at UUC, 701 5th Avenue Huntington, WV 25701

Recent Posts

Action Alert Vivian Feb 5
Activate E-Day! For the Water, For Renewables, and For Some Fun
It's E-Day! Come out for clean water, clean air, healthy communities. Network for social progress! More

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Feb 4
Get Your MOJO On: Call Now About the Modern Jobs Act; Support Solar Jobs!
Support HB 2589 , MOJO, the Modern Jobs Act. It's a bipartisan effort regarding solar electricity generated on former coal mines. More

Hoots and Hollers Randi Pokladnik Jan 29
Hey EPA, Keep the Mercury Standards!
EPA should not be rolling back mercury standards! Much of the mercury that makes its way into our bodies originates from the burning of coal in power plants. Be on the alert to comment to EPA. More

Hoots and Hollers Dustin Jan 25
Bev Reed: I Want Better For The Ohio River Valley
Hear from Ohio resident Bev Reed in this guest blog. Bev is one of many local folks stepping up to defend what they love from infrastructure as part of the proposed Appalachian Petrochemical Hub. More

Action Alert OVEC Jan 15
Calling All Water Drinkers and Pro-Democracy Thinkers
Show up for the water, for democracy, for we, the people! More

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Jan 12
This is What Democracy Looks Like, and You Are In It
The 2018 WV teachers' strike is a recent example of how people power works. We, the people, know how to make WV a better place to live. But we need to fix a broken system. Here's a solution. More

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Jan 12
Mountaineer Xpress Pipeline Work Severs Phone Lines, Blocks Roads
Pipeline construction: Your phone lines are cut, your roads are blocked, and they call the sheriff on you for standing on the public road. More

Hoots and Hollers Dustin Jan 9
Reflections On The Water: WV Water Crisis Five Years Later And A New Petrochemical Threat
If the WV DEP could not regulate one chemical storage tank, how in the world can they regulate all the infrastructure of a 400-mile-long petrochemical complex? More

Hoots and Hollers Randi Pokladnik Jan 8
Citizens Should Take the Lead On Creating the Change We Need
It is up to us. So many politicians are short sighted, unimaginative, and as Greta Thunberg said “not mature enough to tell it like it is.” More

Action Alert OVEC Jan 7
New Year’s Changes; Join Event on the 5th Anniversary of #WVWaterCrisis; More
Hope in the New Year for democracy: take action. Changes at OVEC. Event to mark the 5th anniversary of the #WVWaterCrisis. More

Press Release OVEC Jan 3
Media Advisory: WATER: A sacred gift, a human right, and our stewardship role
On the eve on the fifth anniversary of the 2014 water crisis, community members are invited to gather for WATER: A sacred gift, a human right, and our stewardship role More

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