UNITED NATIONS WARNING: Urgent Global Action is Needed to Combat Climate Change & Industrial Pollution

March 17, 2019

With ‘Ecological Foundations of Society’ at Risk, Warns UN, Hope Resides in Urgent Global Action From an Article by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, March 13, 2019 “What’s at stake is life, and society, as the majority of us know it and enjoy it today. We have no time to lose.” A comprehensive United Nations report [...]

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U. S. Department of Labor says Pipeline Workers Must Receive Overtime Pay for Extra Work

March 16, 2019

U.S. Department of Labor Investigation Results in Federal Court Ordering WV Company to Pay $3.7 Million in Back Wages and Damages News Release, US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division Date March 13, 2019, News Release Number 19-0224-PHI MILLWOOD, WV – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division [...]

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Stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, an Unnecessary Gross Disturbance

March 15, 2019

To the Editor: Tell Northam, Stop the Pipeline From: Atieno Bird, Crozet Gazette, March 12, 2019 PHOTO: Drone photograph of pipeline construction in West Virginia. I want to alert you to a threat faced by our neighbors south of us in Buckingham County that will affect our children, too, and ask you to write to [...]

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WV Needs It’s Coal Severance Tax, Tell the Governor

March 14, 2019

Will a Severance Tax Cut Put Coal Miners Back to Work? (Probably Not) From an Article by Sean O’Leary, WV Center on Budget and Policy, March 10, 2019 On Crossover Day, the West Virginia House of Delegates passed two bills that have the intended purpose of boosting coal production and putting coal miners back to [...]

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Let’s Pay for Solar Power, Not Bailout Nuclear Power

March 13, 2019

Bill introduced to subsidize nuclear power in Pennsylvania, save Three Mile Island From an Article AD CRABLE, Lancaster OnLine, March 11, 2019 Legislation calling for electric ratepayers to prop up nuclear power in Pennsylvania — and save Three Mile Island from closing — was introduced Monday in the state House. State Sen. Ryan Aument of [...]

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VA Water Control Board Decision Favors Mountain Valley Pipeline

March 12, 2019

State board’s vote in Mountain Valley Pipeline’s favor raises questions for opponents From an Article by Laurence Hammack, Roanoke Times, March 9, 2019 For nearly four hours, while members of the State Water Control Board huddled with their attorney behind closed doors, observers were left to wait and wonder what the board would do about [...]

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Denver Air Pollution Now Much Worse Due to Cars and Oil & Gas Industry

March 11, 2019

Breaking: Fossil Fuels Choke Denver With Air Quality 3 Times Worse Than Beijing From an Article by Andy Bosselman, Denver Streetsblog, March 6, 2019 Today from downtown Denver, the peaks of the Rocky Mountain foothills were barely visible through the brown cloud of pollution that covered the region with an unhealthy level of fine particulate [...]

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US Senate Holds Rare Hearing on Climate Change

March 10, 2019

U.S. Senate Republicans hold rare climate hearing, and more might be coming From an Article by Mark K. Mathews, E&E News, March 6, 2019 Senators Lisa Murkowski (R–AK, right) and Joe Manchin (D–WV, left), the senior members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, confer during a hearing yesterday on climate change. It’s [...]

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WV Rivers Coalition Replies to WV-DEP on Nationwide 12 Permits

March 9, 2019

To: WV Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water and Waste Management, 601 57th Street South East, Charleston, WV 25304 Re: 401 Water Quality Certification Program Submitted via: WQSComments@wv.gov West Virginia Rivers Coalition, on behalf of our members and the 19 organizations signed below, respectfully submit the following comments on the proposed modifications to the [...]

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WV Legislature Effectively Ignoring Residents in Favor of Fracking Industry

March 8, 2019

WV Legislature doing little to help residents affected by natural gas drilling From an Article by Kate Mishkin, Charleston Gazette, March 6, 2019 PHOTO CAPTION — More than a dozen horizontal natural gas wells can be drilled from a single well pad, like this one in Doddridge County, WV. West Virginia Delegate Terri Sypolt says [...]

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