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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Decimates Fish Populations in Appalachia
Posted by EcoWatch: Matt Wasson on July 10th, 2014
EcoWatch: A study from researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published this month provides strong new evidence that mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia is devastating downstream fish populations.
That’s hardly news for long-time followers of the controversy surrounding mountaintop removal, a coal mining practice that involves blowing off the tops of mountains to access thin seams of coal and dumping the waste into valleys below. In 2010, a group of 13 prestigious biologists published...
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Dangers Water Privatization Emerge In the Wake of West Virginia’s Chemical Spill
Posted by EcoWatch: Matt Wasson on January 17th, 2014
EcoWatch: It took a few days after a state of emergency was declared across nine West Virginia counties--and one-sixth of the state’s population was told not to drink or bathe using their tap water--for the national news media to discover a story of national importance occurring in the political backwaters of Appalachia.
Filings by the West Virginia Public Service Commission reveal the dramatic expansion of West Virginia American Water Company’s water network over the past 20 years, and why one-sixth of...