| Mon River named one of America's Most Endangered Rivers |
| American Rivers has released their annual list of America's Most Endangered Rivers, and this year the Monongahela River has made the list. Coal extraction in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have threatened the Mon River for generations, and now the looming threat of Marcellus Shale drilling operations has further endangered the Mon. Please visit American Rivers for more info and to take action! |
CCJ Unveils New Greene and Washington
County Watershed Atlas |
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We are pleased to offer online and print copies of maps showing mining-related impacts to all 23 watersheds in Greene and Washington counties, to area groups and interested citizens. With the generous financial assistant of the Sierra Club Huplits Grants Committee, this data and the maps are now available upon request. Click on each individual watershed to download a print-quality PDF for review. For more information on this data and this project, contact us at 724.229.3550. |
Bound copies of the Washington and Greene County Watershed Atlas are available for purchase through CCJ.
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| DEP finds Consol responsible for loss of Duke Lake |
Nearly five years after Duke Lake was drained, the PA DEP has at long last ruled that Consol's longwall mining operations were responsible for the damage to the dam!
Read more about the finding on our Press Coverage page.
PA DEP's Ryerson Station Dam Damage Interim Report
*Note: The "Report pdf" file on the linked page is a large file (8.37MB) |
| Golden Years Cartoon Series |
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This week brings the final edition of the CCJ cartoon series in the Observer-Reporter. The final cartoon addresses an impact of longwall mining that is all to familiar in SWPA: residential subsidence.
Click here to see the final cartoon as well as the previous three.
CCJ would like to thank Phil Coleman and Mike LeMark for helping to develop the cartoons. If you have any questions or curiousities about the cartoons and their subject matter, please do call or email the CCJ office. |
Waterkeeper Alliance Campaign Takes on Coal
Waterkeeper Alliance has launched an innovative web-based campaign, The Dirty Lie (www.thedirtylie.com), to counter the “clean coal” con and to inspire an energy policy that rejects this archaic and dangerous source of energy and embraces safe, renewable sources instead. The campaign features information on longwall mining in southwestern PA.
Visit www.thedirtylie.com to learn more!
Investigation of Longwall Mining by Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity recently released a new report, The Hidden Costs of Clean Coal: The Environmental and Human Disaster of Longwall Mining. Read it now...
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