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The New Yorker: The Future of Coal Country
Bailey Mine Prep Plant (Photo Credit: CCJ) By Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker One Sunday morning, just after deer-hunting season ended, Veronica Coptis, a community organizer in rural Greene County, Pennsylvania, climbed onto her father’s four-wheeler. She set off for a ridge a quarter of a mile from her parents’ small farmhouse, where she was…
Post-Gazette: Bill defining coal mining pollution advances in PA Senate
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 Advance Controversial Coal Mining Bill
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…
