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End Mining Now: Appalachian People's Foot Movement Comes Down On Mountaintop Coal Removal
An extraordinary alliance of residents, environmental groups and national civil rights organizations has officially declared “No More Mountaintop Removal Permits Day” starting March 16 in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Justice Must Flow: Economic Democracy and the Water Commons
The water crisis has nothing to do with the actual availability of water – the culprit is local communities’ inability to control their wealth, their common resources and their institutions of lending and credit.
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How Real Journalism Brought Real Justice to West Virginia
Because an anti-environmental platform is a prerequisite to win office in West Virginia, coal-related spills and other disasters are often overlooked by government officials who want to be re-elected.
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Exclusive: Why West Virginia No Longer Trusts Its Water, Government or Coal Industry
The spill is leading some state natives to question the fate of the coal industry that long sustained them economically – and causing organizers to take West Virigina’s subpar regulation of extractive industries into their own hands.
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Profits or People: West Virginia's Chemical Spill and the Wakeup Call to America
From the explosion at the un-inspected fertilizer plant in West, Tex., which killed 15 people in April, to the mislabeled oil train that derailed and killed 47 in Quebec in July, industrial accidents due to lack of government oversight need to stop.
