Every time WV has a disaster, or any time a post by @coalrivermountain.bsky.social or similar group about coal industry abuses to residents’ health/safety gets traction, someone always says “they deserve it.” Good to see pushback here. Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. #EndMountainTopRemoval
July 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Every time WV has a disaster, or any time a post by @coalrivermountain.bsky.social or similar group about coal industry abuses to residents’ health/safety gets traction, someone always says “they deserve it.” Good to see pushback here. Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. #EndMountainTopRemoval
Me on WOAY news discussing Lexington Coal Company’s giant stack of violations and $3 million in unpaid delinquent fines, in spite of which WV Department of Environmental Protection continues allowing Lexington to extract coal and run up new violations and fines. woay.com/mining-the-l...
“Mining the Lungs of Children” – Delayed Regulatory Enforcement in the Mountain State - WOAY-TV
W.Va (WOAY) - In southern West Virginia, coal mines with repeated environmental violations are racking up fines with limited repercussions from the very agencies designed to protect the Mountain State...
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June 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Happy International Mountain Day! Here’s “Mountaintop” by @gangstagrass.bsky.social, about mountaintop removal and the related impacts that the coal industry inflicts on our communities. #InternationalMountainDay #EndMountainTopRemoval youtu.be/i1__I-aprDc?...
Mountaintop Feat. Brandi Hart and Tomasia
YouTube video by Gangstagrass
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December 12, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Happy International Mountain Day! Here’s “Mountaintop” by @gangstagrass.bsky.social, about mountaintop removal and the related impacts that the coal industry inflicts on our communities. #InternationalMountainDay #EndMountainTopRemoval youtu.be/i1__I-aprDc?...
Happy Earth Day from Coal River Mountain Watch! #EarthDay #EndMountainTopRemoval
April 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Happy Earth Day from Coal River Mountain Watch! #EarthDay #EndMountainTopRemoval
Attention: @coalrivermountain.bsky.social, @wvhighlands.bsky.social, Appalachian Voices and @sierraclub.org filed a lawsuit challenging the decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit for four valley fills associated with the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine in West Virginia.
#EndMountainTopRemoval
#EndMountainTopRemoval
Environmental groups sue to challenge mountaintop removal mine on Coal River Mountain
Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit for ...
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February 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Attention: @coalrivermountain.bsky.social, @wvhighlands.bsky.social, Appalachian Voices and @sierraclub.org filed a lawsuit challenging the decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit for four valley fills associated with the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine in West Virginia.
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#EndMountainTopRemoval
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
August 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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
Just the latest in a series of violations by Lexington Coal Co. In a Show Cause hearing 4/10/24, their head polluter said they wouldn’t violate anymore if WV Dept of Environmental Protection would let them keep their permit. We intervened, saying it should be revoked. 1/2 #EndMountainTopRemoval
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Just the latest in a series of violations by Lexington Coal Co. In a Show Cause hearing 4/10/24, their head polluter said they wouldn’t violate anymore if WV Dept of Environmental Protection would let them keep their permit. We intervened, saying it should be revoked. 1/2 #EndMountainTopRemoval
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
Mountaintop Removal Blast, Silica Dust Cloud, on Coal River Mountain, Raleigh County, WV 8/8/2025
YouTube video by Coal River Mountain Watch
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August 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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
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
October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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
#EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice lethbridgenewsnow.com/2024/12/24/p...
Protesters rally against Grassy Mountain coal mine project at premier’s office
Sophie Filion says she organized a protest in front of Premier Danielle Smith's constituency office Monday to ...
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December 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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
14 years ago we lost Judy Bonds to the cancer so common near mountaintop removal. @goldmanprize.bsky.social winner 2003, Coal River Mountain Watch Executive Director, inspiration to thousands. She said, “Fight harder and finish them off.” #EndMountainTopRemoval www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ju...
Julia Bonds - Goldman Environmental Prize
A coal miner’s daughter, Julia “Judy” Bonds fought to end mountaintop removal coal mining that contaminates drinking water, destroys rivers and forests, and endangers communities.
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January 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
14 years ago we lost Judy Bonds to the cancer so common near mountaintop removal. @goldmanprize.bsky.social winner 2003, Coal River Mountain Watch Executive Director, inspiration to thousands. She said, “Fight harder and finish them off.” #EndMountainTopRemoval www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ju...
I’m sure it’s already chilling protest. Regular folks/small groups can’t afford the litigation. Just filing stifles public participation. A local postmaster in WV once told folks their social security would be cut off if they protested mountaintop removal. #EndMountainTopRemoval
Very good overview of the $300 M SLAPP suit that the Dakota Access Pipeline building is going after Greenpeace with. If Greenpeace loses, this is going to chill peaceful environmental protest and standing in solidarity w/ indigenous communities. Please listen:
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listen.climateone.org/CspPRWPA?sid...
The $300M Lawsuit That Could Crush Dissent
Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is suing Greenpeace for $300 million. The pipeline company accuses Greenpeace of criminal behavior — trespassing, vandalism, an...
listen.climateone.org
March 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I’m sure it’s already chilling protest. Regular folks/small groups can’t afford the litigation. Just filing stifles public participation. A local postmaster in WV once told folks their social security would be cut off if they protested mountaintop removal. #EndMountainTopRemoval
Every time WV has a disaster, or any time a post by @coalrivermountain.bsky.social or similar group about coal industry abuses to residents’ health/safety gets traction, someone always says “they deserve it.” Good to see pushback here. Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. #EndMountainTopRemoval
There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.
July 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Every time WV has a disaster, or any time a post by @coalrivermountain.bsky.social or similar group about coal industry abuses to residents’ health/safety gets traction, someone always says “they deserve it.” Good to see pushback here. Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. #EndMountainTopRemoval
Thank you Doretha Mollett and @blackbygod.bsky.social . This spot is only 5 minutes from our office, across the river from the old Marsh Fork Elementary and beside a 2.8-billion-gallon coal waste sludge dam and 2,000-acre mountaintop removal site. #BlackHistoryMonth #EndMountainTopRemoval
Left standing at the gate—again. For the 2nd time in 4 years, the Mollett family was blocked from visiting their ancestors’ graves on coal mine land. Black Appalachian history buried twice—first in the ground, then behind corporate gates.
By @JoeSerivino for BBG.
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By @JoeSerivino for BBG.
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Mollett family fights to keep Edwight mine land cemetery alive – Black By God
Rakes and flowers in their hands, memories of loved ones on their minds, Doretha Mollett’s family never made it past the company gate. For the second time in four years, Mollett’s family could not rea...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Thank you Doretha Mollett and @blackbygod.bsky.social . This spot is only 5 minutes from our office, across the river from the old Marsh Fork Elementary and beside a 2.8-billion-gallon coal waste sludge dam and 2,000-acre mountaintop removal site. #BlackHistoryMonth #EndMountainTopRemoval
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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#EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice #KeepItInTheGround
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July 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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#EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice #KeepItInTheGround
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Happy International Mountain Day! Enjoy this string quartet piece “Coal River Mountain: An Aerial View” by Rikki Bell, video filmed and edited by @juniorwalk.bsky.social. #InternationalMountainDay #EndMountainTopRemoval youtu.be/OU6YD00XOSA?...
Coal River Mountain - An Aerial view by Rikki Bell
YouTube video by Junior Walk
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December 12, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Happy International Mountain Day! Enjoy this string quartet piece “Coal River Mountain: An Aerial View” by Rikki Bell, video filmed and edited by @juniorwalk.bsky.social. #InternationalMountainDay #EndMountainTopRemoval youtu.be/OU6YD00XOSA?...
Meanwhile, residents have zero protection from the silica dust they’re forced to breathe by coal companies conducting mountaintop removal blasting near their homes. This was the explosive equivalent of 305 tomahawk missiles. #EndMountainTopRemoval
April 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Meanwhile, residents have zero protection from the silica dust they’re forced to breathe by coal companies conducting mountaintop removal blasting near their homes. This was the explosive equivalent of 305 tomahawk missiles. #EndMountainTopRemoval
This blast was the explosive equivalent of 305 tomahawk missiles, and the carcinogenic dust cloud traveled well beyond two miles through neighboring communities. WVDEP took no regulatory action since they didn’t see it themselves. They never do. #EndMountainTopRemoval youtu.be/vTb9Bm2otxE?...
blasting on Coal River Mountain 11/13/20
YouTube video by Junior Walk
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December 29, 2024 at 2:16 AM
This blast was the explosive equivalent of 305 tomahawk missiles, and the carcinogenic dust cloud traveled well beyond two miles through neighboring communities. WVDEP took no regulatory action since they didn’t see it themselves. They never do. #EndMountainTopRemoval youtu.be/vTb9Bm2otxE?...
30 people got arrested that day, including @dhlovelife.bsky.social. #EndMountainTopRemoval
July 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
30 people got arrested that day, including @dhlovelife.bsky.social. #EndMountainTopRemoval
Meanwhile, residents have zero protection from the silica dust they’re forced to breathe by coal companies conducting mountaintop removal blasting near their homes. This was the explosive equivalent of 305 tomahawk missiles. #EndMountainTopRemoval
April 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Meanwhile, residents have zero protection from the silica dust they’re forced to breathe by coal companies conducting mountaintop removal blasting near their homes. This was the explosive equivalent of 305 tomahawk missiles. #EndMountainTopRemoval
Please consider Coal River Mountain Watch for your last minute 2024 donations (or your first minute 2025 donations) at secure.givelively.org/donate/coal-... #EndMountainTopRemoval Thanks from the #EnvironmentalJustice / #ClimateJustice frontlines!
January 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Please consider Coal River Mountain Watch for your last minute 2024 donations (or your first minute 2025 donations) at secure.givelively.org/donate/coal-... #EndMountainTopRemoval Thanks from the #EnvironmentalJustice / #ClimateJustice frontlines!
This is the reason #MountainTopRemoval is the cradle of the #ClimateCrisis: it destroys vast areas of carbon-sink forests while extracting coal. Plus, it’s a deadly #PublicHealth hazard. #EndMountainTopRemoval #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice youtu.be/8xe4im2urTw?...
Isaac Asimov Warning about the Climate Crisis in 1988. - Climate Change
YouTube video by UBcome you
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December 29, 2024 at 2:07 AM
This is the reason #MountainTopRemoval is the cradle of the #ClimateCrisis: it destroys vast areas of carbon-sink forests while extracting coal. Plus, it’s a deadly #PublicHealth hazard. #EndMountainTopRemoval #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice youtu.be/8xe4im2urTw?...
#EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice @dhlovelife.bsky.social @stopshoppingchoir.bsky.social @coalrivermountain.bsky.social youtu.be/TBFFYenKbQQ?...
Mountaintop Removal Blast, Silica Dust Cloud, on Coal River Mountain, Raleigh County, WV 8/8/2025
YouTube video by Coal River Mountain Watch
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August 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM