Archive: Coal

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 […]

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 […]