2006 Press Releases and Media Advisories

April 22, 2008  Citizens Present $ 2.4 Billion to State Legislature on Earth Day

April 5, 2008  Blessing of the Mountain Potentially Volatile Prayer Vigil Turns to Calm Talk

April 5, 2008  Living with Mountain Top Removal: West Virginians from the Coalfields Speak in Berkeley Springs

April 4, 2008  WV Citizens to DEP: This is Not Good Enough: Sludge “Study” Not Fulfilling Legislative Mandate

April 1, 2008  Fossil Fools Day Street Theatre

February 29, 2008 Link TV Presents Burning the Future: Coal In America

February 18, 2008  State Workers Rally for Wages, Revenue, Environmental Enforcement 

February 15, 2008  Another Setback for Mountaintop Removal: 'Overwhelming Majority' of 43,000 Comments Flooding Into Office of Surface Mining Oppose Stream Buffer Zone Rule Change

February 6, 2008  State Senator Introduces Bill Banning Valley Fills; Citizen Groups Laud “Long-Past Due” Legislation

January 17, 2008  Massey Energy to Pay Huge Penalty for Clean Water Act Violations

January 4, 2008  South Charleston Museum at The LaBelle Theater will present world premier of mountaintop removal film “Rise Up! West Virginia”

October 22, 2007  Regional Citizen Groups Unite to Demand OSM Pull Buffer Zone Rule Change

October 22, 2007  Prayer Vigil Highlights Need for Stewardship and Protection of Land and People of West Virginia

October 22, 2007  Three Environmental Groups Celebrate Combined 135 Years

October 10, 2007  Judge Tells Big Coal: Stop Burying Appalachian Streams

September 30, 2007  Mingo Residents Gather to Celebrate, Better their County

August 22, 2007  Bush Administration Proposes Repeal of Stream Protection Rule to Ease Legal Limits on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

August 15, 2007  National Coal to Liquids Conference Protest

June 19, 2007  Massey Coal Should Pay for Clean Water Violations

May 15, 2007  US Groups Join Appalachian Effort to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

May 7, 2007  Press Conference from Appalachian Coalfield Delegation now at United Nations to Expose Coal Industry Abuses

April 12, 2007  New Report: West Virginia’s Global Warming Pollution Up 7% Since 1990: Power Plants Cited As Main Culprits

March 22, 2007  OVEC wins E-Appalachia Award

March 21, 2007  Battle of Blair Mountain topic at Appalachian Studies Conference

March 12, 2007  Mountaintop Removal Featured in Latest Google Earth Release

March 1, 2007  MARCH 20: FIRST EVER CLIMATE CRISIS ACTION DAY AT THE U.S CAPITOL

December 14, 2006  The Shafeek Nader Trust For The Community Interest Presents The Annual Joe A. Callaway Award For Civic Courage

October 24, 2006  The Appalachian Landscape: Bob Ross Don’t Live Here No More:Art show part of fund- and awareness-raising in Huntington

October 24, 2006  The Appalachian Landscape: Bob Ross Don’t Live Here No More: Mingo County resident’s artwork part of fund- and awareness-raising art show in Huntington

October 11, 2006  Writers and poets to tour West Virginia mountaintop
removal sites, meet with affected residents

September 19, 2006 Lincoln County Activist Visits DC Seeking Help for Kids Threatened by Coal Mining Activities

August 17, 2006 Enduring Record-Breaking Heat and Torrential Rain, Grandfather Walks to Washington DC to Raise Funds for New School

August 5, 2006  Appalachian Mountain Justice Activists Demonstrate at Governors Convention

July 21, 2006  "Coal Rush" to Threaten Environment, Challenge America’s Energy Security

July 11, 2006 New National Academies Study Concludes Dioxin is Toxic

June 2, 2006  OVEC Presents Appalshop Buffalo Creek Flood Documentaries on June 20 at Cabell County Public  Library

May 31, 2006 Memorial at Cemetery in Midst of Mountaintop Removal Site Caps-Off Healing Mountains Conference

May 27, 2006  Coal Dust Confirmed at Marsh Fork Elementary

May 22, 2006  Healing Mountains Slated To Be Largest Conference of Mountaintop Removal Opponents Yet

May 9, 2006  Coalfield Residents Pave Way for Grassroots Voice in United Nations

May 2, 2006  Coalfield Residents to Report to United Nations on “True Costs of Coal”

February 10, 2006  Safety in Mining Communities

2005 Press Releases