Press Releases and Media Advisories

February 9, 2012  Presenting: Hawks Nest: Blood Beneath Our Feet

February 8, 2012  Is Arch Coal About to Mine Historic Blair Mountain?

January 18, 2012  Groups Secure Another Key Victory in Fight to Stop Pollution from Coal Mines

January 18, 2012  Local Groups to Host Showing of The Last Mountain

January 16, 2012  SSP to Hold Press Conference on Water Contamination Evidence Emerging from Prenter Lawsuit

November 16, 2011 New Report Outlines Realistic Path for Cleaner and Less Expensive Energy Future

October 6, 2011  Coal industry receives court ruling on mountaintop removal mining permit review process

October 3, 2011 Groups Secure Agreement from Arch Coal to Treat Pollution from Coal Mines

August 23, 2011  OVECs ED to Receive Human Rights Award

August 4, 2011  Author Parenti Speaks in Charleston Aug. 12 and 13

July 21, 2011  EPA Issues Final Guidance on Mountaintop Removal Mining To Reaffirm the Clean Water Act and New Science

July 10, 2011  Mountain Health & Heritage Association Oppose Frasure Creek Mining Open Fork #2 Permit

June 30, 2011  From Telluride to Twilight, with Love: Colorado Town Officially Supports OVEC's Efforts to Preserve the Community, Culture and Mountains of Twilight, W.Va.; PSAs Now Running in Telluride

June 21, 2011  NEW STUDY SHOWS BIRTH DEFECT RATES HIGHER
NEAR MOUNTAINTOP MINING SITES

May 25, 2011  Artists Join Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Broad Coalition to Speak Out Against Mountaintop Removal Mining in Online Video Campaign

April 28, 2001  State Bonds for Proposed Mingo Coal-To-Gas Plant Questioned

March 23, 2011  Illegal Water Pollution Compels Groups to Take Legal Action

March 8, 2011  Court Orders Hold on Permit for New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine Challenged by Community Groups

March 4, 2011  Coming to Huntington: The Beehive Collectives Innovative Graphic, The True Cost of Coal

February 22, 2011  Community screening and forum: "DIRTY BUSINESS: 'Clean Coal' and the Battle for our Energy Future"

February 18, 2011  Press Conference: Bill Slated to Ban Underground Slurry Injection

January 18, 2011  The Impact of Coal on Our Lives

January 13, 2011  Statement from OVEC Executive Director Janet Keating on EPA's Veto of the Spruce No. 1 Mountaintop Removal Mine

November 10, 2010  The Toll of Coal: Cradle to Grave Impacts of Coal on Human Health

November 3, 2010  Appalachian Art for Appalachian Families Announces "Deers & Beers" Fundraising Dinner and Call for Art Submission

October 16, 2010  Statement from OVEC re: EPA Region III recommendation to HQ on Spruce No. 1 Mountaintop Removal Mine

October 14, 2010  Appalachian and National Organizations Defend Obama Administrations Review of Mountaintop Removal Mining from Industry Interference

September 9, 2010  Reckless Removal of West Virginias Historic Blair Mountain Battlefield from National Register of Historic Places Prompts Legal Challenge from Community Groups

August 25, 2010 DC Press Conference to Announce Appalachia Rising Mobilization in Washington D.C

August 11, 2010  WV Environmental Group Challenges US Senate Seat Contenders to Over Flight of Mountaintop Removal Sites

June 25, 2010  Annual Mountain Keepers Music Festival Celebrates West Virginia's Freedom

June 14, 2010  Group of 22 professionals from Ghana, Africa coming to West Virginia to examine community responses to natural resource extraction.

June 11, 2010  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal  

June 3, 2010  Media Advisory: June 8 Slurry Hearing

April 1, 2010  Statement from OVEC on EPA's Comprehensive Guidance to Protect Appalachian Communities From Harmful Environmental Impacts of Mountain Top Mining

April 1, 2010  Treehuggers Ball Returns to Huntington

March 26, 2010  Statement from OVEC co-director on EPA's decision on Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal mine permit

March 2, 2010  Global Acclaim & Recognition for WV Environmentalist Continues; Maria Gunnoe Receives 2010 David Brower Award From Lawa

January 28, 2010  Groups Galvanize to Support Federal Coal Ash Regulations,  Demand U.S. EPA to release regulations as promised

January 5, 2010  Environmental Protection Agency Approves Permit for Controversial WV Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine

December 2, 2009  Hundreds to Rally at WV Department of Environmental Protection against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

November 25, 2009  Court Scolds Army Corps for Ignoring Public, Issuing Mining Permits

November 17, 2009  Coal River Valley Residents to Speak Against Blasting on Coal River Mountain

September 30, 2009  International Peacemaker to Speak at Oct. 3 Ecumenical Event in South Charleston Turning Over a New Leaf: Faith Community Green Event Open to Public 

September 11, 2009  EPA Plans Scientific Scrutiny of New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits

August 26, 2009  Earthjustice Appeals to Supreme Court on Mountaintop Removal Mining Case 

August 18, 2009  Media Advisory for event on Sunday, August 23, 2009 

August 11, 2009  Army Corps of Engineers Approves Permit for Controversial WV Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine

June 29, 2009  Help select new nickname for the Mountain State.

June 24, 2009  The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Quality in Appalachia

June 22, 2009  Educational Rally on Sustainable Solutions for West Virginia

June 10, 2009 Still Moving Mountains CD Celebrates Coalfield Resistance to Mountaintop Removal

June 1, 2009  Concert Funds Campaign for Replacement of School Below Coal Sludge Dam, Promotes Clean Energy

May 24, 2009  Seventeen Arrested Saturday; Six Remain in Jail for Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Coal Sludge Impoundments; $2000 Cash Bail Unprecedented

May 23, 2009 More Arrests on Coal River Valley as Actions Against Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Dams Continue

May 23, 2009  11 Removed During Raleigh County, W.Va. Protests of Coal Sludge Dams and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining; More Protestors Expected This Afternoon

May 6, 2009  Grassroots citizens groups ask EPA to take over W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection; DEP places coal profits ahead of environmental justice for citizens

April 21, 2009  OVEC organizer Maria Gunnoe Wins Goldman Environmental Prize; Second Former Southern W.Va. Waitress to Win Environmental Nobel

April 19, 2009  The Faces and Places of Mountaintop Removal

March 24, 2009  Hope is alive in the mountains and valleys of Appalachia: Obama Administration EPA to scrutinize mountaintop removal permits

March 19, 2009  Underground Injection of Coal Slurry Not Meeting Public Health Standards

March 17, 2009  Bulldozers, Explosives Raze Mountains as W. Va. Groups Ask Obama Administration for Relief

March 11, 2009 Wyoming County Native Burns Featured In Charleston Event

February 28, 2009  Putnam County Activist Join Climate Protest in Washington, D.C.

January 13, 2009  Court sides with mountaintop removal coal mining industry; Conservationists urging new administration to stop mountaintop removal coal mining

January 13, 2009  Citizens to DEP: Prove that Sludge is Safe