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Protect Streams in Ryerson Station State Park from Coal Mining
Consol Energy’s Bailey Mine destroyed Duke Lake at Ryerson Station State Park over ten years ago, and it will never be restored. Ryerson Station State Park is the only state park in Greene County, PA. Now Consol wants to get authorization from the state to undermine more of our water resources, putting in…
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…