This week, Appalachian Voices and 12 partner organizations are on Capitol Hill to tell Congress to protect our communities by making coal companies clean up their functionally abandoned coal mines, known as zombie mines.
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A week of action to stop zombie coal mines
TAGS: Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance Alliance for Appalachia Black Warrior Riverkeeper Bond Improvement and Reclamation Assurance Act Center for Coalfield Justice Coal Cleanup Taxpayer Protection Act Coal River Mountain Watch Congress Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Kentucky Resource Council Rep. Matt Cartwright Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Southern Connected Communities Project Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment The Clinch Coalition U.S. Rep. Don Beyer. zombie mines West Virginia Highlands Conservancy zombie mines
Senate passes amended STREAM Act and sends it back to House
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 16, 2022 CONTACT Chelsea Barnes, (614) 205-6424, chelsea@appvoices.org Dan Radmacher, (540) 798-6683, dan@appvoices.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night, by unanimous consent, the U.S. Senate passed the Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines…
TAGS: abandoned mine lands Acid Mine Drainage bipartisan infrastructure law Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation Friends of the Cheat Prairie Rivers Network RECLAIM Coalition Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment
Monitoring air quality across Appalachia
After a decade of focusing on water pollution from coal mining, Appalachian Voices’ coal impacts team is embarking on an ambitious project to monitor air pollution in communities impacted by coal mining and other fossil fuel infrastructure, and in other communities where air quality is an environmental justice concern.
TAGS: air quality American Rescue Plan Center for Coalfield Justice Coal River Mountain Watch Friends For Environmental Justice Inflation Reduction Act national ambient air quality standards particulate matter Pittsylvania County NAACP Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Appalachian Voices receives EPA grant for community air monitoring project
Appalachian Voices has received $118,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund the Upper South and Appalachia Citizen Air Monitoring Project.
TAGS: air quality American Rescue Plan Center for Coalfield Justice Coal River Mountain Watch Friends For Environmental Justice Inflation Reduction Act national ambient air quality standards particulate matter Pittsylvania County NAACP Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
