Black Lung Disease May Be Here To Stay With Coughing & Wheezing!

September 21, 2023

Black Lung Advocates Want More From New Proposed Silica Dust Rule Article by Emily Rice, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, September 20, 2023 West Virginia’s coal mining communities face an ongoing public health crisis as pneumoconiosis, better known as black lung, affects miners of all ages. For decades, the nation’s top health officials have urged the [...]

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NOTICE ~ ‘American Climate Corps’ ~ Federal Green Jobs Training Program Much Overdue!

September 20, 2023

By Popular Demand the New “American Climate Corps” Has Work to do Across America From an Article by Jackie Ostfeld, Outdoors for All Campaign, Sierra Club, September 20, 2023 BIG. NEWS. After years of advocacy and grassroots pressure, President Biden responded to our overwhelming pressure and just announced the American Climate Corps! This is a [...]

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Radioactivity Reading Appear Very High at Former Site of Fairmont Brine Processing Facility

September 19, 2023

Former Marcellus Frack Water (Brine) Processing Location Now Polluted With Radioactive Residues From an Article by Justin Nobel, Truthdig, September 18, 2023 It’s around 4 p.m. one fine summer afternoon on a West Virginia hilltop when Dr. Yuri Gorby, a former Department of Energy scientist, gets the first clicks on his Geiger counter. He is [...]

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OMG, Hottest Year Will Undoubtedly Be 2023, Believe Me Or The Facts

September 18, 2023

Odds that 2023 will be Earth’s hottest year have doubled, NOAA reports From the Article by Scott Dance, Washington Post, September 15, 2023 There’s now a greater than 93 percent chance 2023 will surpass 2016 as the planet’s warmest year. After a record-hot stretch around the globe this summer, it appears all but certain: 2023 [...]

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U. S. Bureau of Land Management Needs Stronger Rules to Limit Oil & Gas Exploration

September 17, 2023

The BLM Now Proposes to Update the Leasing Rules for Fossil Energy Projects on Federal Land From the Letter of Mike Scott, National Oil and Gas Campaign Manager, Sierra Club, September 16, 2023 From 9 to 5, I’m the Sierra Club’s Oil and Gas Campaign Manager. When I’m not working, you can find me hunting, [...]

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Let’s Update the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) As Soon As Possible (ASAP)

September 16, 2023

THE N.E.P.A. PROCESS REQUIRES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS OR IMPACT STATEMENTS ON FEDERAL PROJECTS From the Sierra Club Toolkit on NEPA Update, September 2023 On July 28, 2023, the Biden administration’s White House Council on Environmental Quality released a notice of proposed rulemaking to update rules that guide federal decision making under the National Environmental Policy Act [...]

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Thunder Mountain Has Been Granted One of Six Permits, But Refused on Two Public Health Permits

September 14, 2023

Multiple Permits Needed by the Proposed TMES Medical Waste Facility, Whoops! From the Website of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, Charleston, September 14, 2023 On Wednesday (9/13/23), the WVDEP Division of Air Quality notified the public that they had granted the air quality permit for a medical waste incinerator proposed by Thunder Mountain Environmental Services [...]

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Air Permit Granted for Thunder Mountain Medical Waste Plant in Jackson County, WV

September 13, 2023

Company Name: Thunder Mountain Environmental Services LLC Facility Name: Thunder Mountain Environmental Services West Virginia Plant Permit Application: R13-3563 Plant ID No.: 035-00082. The Division of Air Quality (DAQ) of the WV Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), pursuant to 45CSR13, has made a final determination to issue Permit R13-3565. Documents related to this permitting action, [...]

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‘Halt the Harm’ Program on Wasted Water for Drilling & Fracking

September 12, 2023

Wasted Water: The Impacts of Fracking’s Water Use from Pennsylvania to Colorado Introduction by Erica Jackson, FracTracker Alliance, August 30, 2023 In Pennsylvania alone fracking operations consume a staggering 19 million gallons of freshwater per well. Once those millions of gallons of surface water are taken for fracking, the water is permanently removed from the [...]

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Planned Major Fracked Gas Compressor Station in Marshall County Under Review Until September 20th

September 11, 2023

BLACK BEAR Natural Gas Compressor Station in Marshall County, WV Information Posted by Oil & Gas Watch, September, 2023 Company: Appalachia Midstream Services LLC, 3609 Big Wheeling Creek, Wheeling, WV 26003 Description ~ The Black Bear Compressor Station is a proposed natural gas compression facility in Marshall County, West Virginia, part of the state’s Northern [...]

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