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Winds of Change Contents |
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OVEC's Win in Clean Water Act Case Has Nationwide and MTR Permit Implications |
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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Arouses Passionate Comments During Comment Period |
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Jack Spadaro's Story: |
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WV Supreme Court Agrees to Hear OVEC Member's Case Against Arch Coal |
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Global Warming Topic of Annual Conference on the Environment |
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Meet the New Boss at the EPA - the Same As the Old Boss at the EPA ... Sigh ... |
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Just Say NO to Mountaintop Removal / Valley Fills in Papua, New Guinea |
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Six Million and One Reasons Why West Virginia Needs Clean Elections |
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Sludge Impoundments in Spotlight - Again
After the Martin County Coal Co. (Massey Energy) coal sludge impoundment disaster OVEC, Coal River Mountain Watch and other groups pressured Congress for action. Congress approved $1.6 million for the National Academies of Science’s National Research Council to examine coal waste impoundments. We attended the council’s public meetings and made certain our concerns about coal sludge impoundments were heard.
The council’s final report, issued in 2001, validated almost all of our concerns and says there are no guarantees a disaster similar won’t happen at any of the nation’s 700 coal waste impoundments. The report detailed numerous steps to make impoundments safer, and suggests that the coal industry and regulators work to establish alternatives to coal waste impoundments.
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