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Observer-Reporter: DRYerson Festival to Highlight Stream Preservation at Ryerson

By Veronica Coptis | June 23, 2017

Environmental Groups, Locals Speak Out Against Bill Threatening to Harm PA Streams

By Veronica Coptis | May 23, 2017

Post-Gazette: Bill defining coal mining pollution advances in PA Senate

By Veronica Coptis | May 23, 2017

Whitehorn Run in Greene County, PA (Photo Credit: DEP) By Laura Legere by Post-Gazette HARRISBURG — A bill that will make it harder to challenge underground coal mining permits because of their potential to damage streams advanced out of a Senate committee on Monday. The bill by Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, would amend […]

StateImpact: Senate Advances Controversial Coal Mining Bill

By Veronica Coptis | May 23, 2017

Whitehorn Run, Greene County (Photo Credit: DEP) by Marie Cusack, StateImpact The state senate has advanced a bill that could upend an ongoing legal challenge by two environmental groups seeking to restrict coal mining beneath a western Pennsylvania state park. With the backing of senate GOP leadership, SB 624 was approved by a committee Monday in an 8-4 party […]

Observer-Reporter: Consol agrees not to mine near Kent Run in Ryerson Station

By Veronica Coptis | May 18, 2017

A Just Transition: Creating the New Economy in Eastern Kentucky

By Veronica Coptis | May 12, 2017

Our allies Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) and the Mountain Associations for Community Economic Development (MACED) and their supporters are doing powerful work to build a clean and just new economy in eastern Kentucky. Check out this video that shows real examples of what can happen as coal jobs are lost to a dwindling market. 

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