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Appalachian mountain valley in fall foliage. This is Righthand Fork near Rock Creek, WV, on Coal River Mountain. Coal giant Alpha Metallurgical Resources has submitted an application to strip mine (mountaintop removal) 670 acres of the ridges at the head of this and adjacent hollers.
Act today to keep 10 million tons of coal in the ground & protect 670 acres of Appalachian headwater forest from a New mountaintop removal permit. Comment by 11/12/25, details at www.crmw.net/updates/oppo... #EndMountaintopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice
Apparently, the only "elevated enforcement actions" that WVDEP intends to take is to threaten elevated enforcement actions. This is just one of many violations that WVDEP keeps extending for Lexington Coal Company, months beyond the 90-day limit. #EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice
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You’d think.
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Act at link in comments to protect 1,900 acres of lush forested Appalachian Mountains, keep 56 million tons of coal in the ground, & keep 3 miles of headwater streams from being buried by chronic violator Lexington Coal Co. LCC owes $3 million in delinquent fines. youtu.be/jv_uZmwVgw8?...
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
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Mountaintop Removal blast silica dust cloud 8/8/2025 on Coal River Mountain, Raleigh County, WV. #EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice Flyover courtesy @southwings.bsky.social. Video by @coalrivermountain.bsky.social
Hazardous dust cloud from #MountainTopRemoval blasting on Coal River Mountain, WV, 8/8/2025. Communities near MTR suffer high rates of deadly illnesses-cancer, heart disease, etc #EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice Flight by @southwings.bsky.social Video by @coalrivermountain.bsky.social
Orwellian
I misspoke. Still, keeping 56 million tons of coal in the ground seems like a worthy endeavor.
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A forested mountain valley, Matt’s Creek holler in Boone County, WV. The mountain to the right of the stream is largely denuded, with bare rubble, erosion gullies, and rock cliffs, and has the permit number S502007 superimposed on the rubble. This permit is the Crescent #2 surface mine operated by Lexington Coal Company, which owes over $3 million in delinquent fines for violations on this and other permits. The mountain ridge to the left of the stream is covered with green forest and has the permit number S502808 superimposed. Lexington has requested renewal of permit S502808, which is so far undisturbed, by WV Department of Environmental Protection. The photo is in a post with a link where people can comment to oppose renewal of this permit. If it is renewed and Lexington begins extracting coal, they will turn the lush forest on the left into more of the dusty, polluting moonscape on the right. This is 1,900 acres of Appalachian headwater carbon-sink forest that would be bulldozed and burned to extract 63 million tons of climate-killing coal.
Keep 63 million tons of coal in the ground, protect 1,900 acres of Appalachian Mountain headwater forest, and protect the health of communities downwind and downstream. Easy to comment today.
#EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice #KeepItInTheGround
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I wish the media would stop saying “detained” and “in detention.” That sounds so temporary. “We were detained by a traffic jam.” “Two students got detention for cussing in class.” Abducted, imprisoned, etc seems more semantically appropriate.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources must be just giddy to profit even more from polluting our rivers, land, air, and lungs.
A polluted tributary running black into a river. A road bridge crosses the tributary.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources must be just giddy to profit even more from pollution like this.
Plundering polluters always claim “no environmental harms” and lavish prosperity for all. And since they pollute with relative impunity on land, such as mountaintop removal for coal, it’s laughable to imagine any effective regulation in the deep sea.
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It’s good to see prominent pushback against the “you people deserve it” mindset. @dhlovelife.bsky.social @zachshrewsbury.bsky.social @jeffbiggers.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social
As climate-crisis “freak” weather events become the norm and forecasting, preparation, and reporting are defunded into oblivion, some likely Orwellian statements may include “we’ve always had deadly floods” and “weather forecasters are always wrong; this is their fault; fire and prosecute them.”
“They work cheap” may be the worst reason to oppose abducting and disappearing people.
Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night.
Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.
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