OVEC: Celebrating 25 Years of Organizing Voices and Empowering Communities

 

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Remembering Laura

OVEC Organizer Maria Gunnoe Wins 2009
Goldman Environmental Prize for North America

Films, Music and Books Featuring
OVEC Organizer Maria Gunnoe

OVEC Leaders Win National Award
Online Interview

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Latest OVEC
Action Alert
 
(1/11/12)

December 2011
Winds of Change

Featured Garden Photo
In the Garden
Galleries for a few
moments of Zen

Mountaintop Removal - Help End It!
Flip on the Light Switch and Blow Up a Mountain? NO!
Explore Our Website. Learn About Coal
and Help Stop Mountaintop Removal!  Support Green Jobs, Conservation, Energy Efficiency and Renewables

OVEC's Vision and Our Mission

What We Do: View/ Download OVEC's Brochure

Save Money, Save Lives with Clean Energy

NCC Petition: Protect Creation


The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition by fotolace
Many of the photos here were taken on Kayford Mountain with
OVEC board member and Keeper of the Mountain Larry Gibson

New York Times front page: As the Mountaintops Fall, a Coal Town Vanishes 
Slide Show: A Coal Town Vanishes
Learn More: MTR Stops Here, in Twilight


OVEC organizer Maria Gunnoe in a
Telluride PSA about her work in Twilight, W.Va.

Expanding on Acting-Gov. Tomblin's Words,
 "The Impact of Coal on Our Lives"

Mountain Heroes: Tell Your Story  

Plundering Appalachia

 Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining

Learn More: Journey Up Coal River

Purchase the CD Still Moving Mountains
Associated with Journey Up Coal River;
Engineered by former OVEC board member Jeff Bosley

MTR in WV

Mountaintop Removal Mining in WV

Take a look at OVEC's MTR Galleries

Shop for Movies, Books, Music, Clothes
and Food - and Support OVEC

Current Petitions and Actions

Mountaintop Removal in Our Own Words

Flooding and Mountaintop Removal: First-Hand Accounts

Faith and Mountaintop Removal

Coal-to-Liquids

Global Warming and West Virginia

Friends of Blair Mountain

WV Coal Mining Maps

Gazette Series: Mining the Mountains
Abandoned Promises

 Who Owns West Virginia? (pdf)      

Our old website is archived here.
Notes on OVEC's website here.

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OVEC Board Chair Chuck Nelson and others talk about MTR, in their own words.

Lawsuit News: Patriot Agrees to Huge Selenium Cleanup

Organizers' Toolbox: Building Power

Aerial view of Anita Miller's childhood home, minus the mountains she explored as a child.