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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · 18h

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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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Austin, Texas USA @cclatx.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Save on better appliances before the year ends. Help for all your tax credit and installation questions.

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 23

You’d think.

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 22

And if you’d like to support our frontlines, eyes in the sky and boots on the ground work in the literal trenches, please do so at secure.givelively.org/donate/coal-.... We need all the help we can get. Thanks!

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 22

@mycologist.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @climatehuman.bsky.social @cclusa.org @dhlovelife.bsky.social @earthjustice.org @climatecasino.net @xrglobal.bsky.social @hollergospel.bsky.social @fairshake.bsky.social @jhenryfair.com @podcastgreenred.bsky.social & thanks @southwings.bsky.social

Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 22

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?...

Surface mine violations by Lexington Coal Co. on Cherry Pond Mountain, WV Flyover 8/8/2024

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 22

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice

Twilight South public comments

Make your voice heard about Lexington Coal Company’s Twilight South permit in Boone County

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 22

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?...

Surface mine violations by Lexington Coal Co. on Cherry Pond Mountain, WV Flyover 8/8/2024

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 15

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

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Vernon Haltom @vernon-haltom.bsky.social · Aug 15

#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

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Aug 2

Orwellian

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 25

I misspoke. Still, keeping 56 million tons of coal in the ground seems like a worthy endeavor.

Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 24

All humans can comment and share because the climate crisis affects everyone. @billmckibben.bsky.social @podcastgreenred.bsky.social @dhlovelife.bsky.social @jeffbiggers.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 24

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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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.

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 11

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.

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 10

Alpha Metallurgical Resources must be just giddy to profit even more from polluting our rivers, land, air, and lungs.

Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · Jul 10

For my latest for @rollingstone.com , I take a deep dive into every dirty gift Trump's massive tax-and-spending bill gives the fossil fuel industry, and takes from everyone else.
Spoiler: it's worse than you think.
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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 10

Alpha Metallurgical Resources must be just giddy to profit even more from pollution like this.

A polluted tributary running black into a river. A road bridge crosses the tributary.

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Vernon Haltom @vernon-haltom.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · Jul 10

Once more with feeling:
"We do NOT need #deepseamining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why..."
theconversation.com/we-dont-need...
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We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why

Commercial mining of the deep sea could begin soon. But these metals and minerals are not scarce. Mining will be harmful and the economic benefits are overstated.

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 8

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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · Jul 8

West Virginia opioid settlement funds are supposed to reverse years of crisis. In several counties, they’re being used to pay regional jail bills. This story was published in partnership with WVU's Reed School of Media and Communications, with support from Scott Widmeyer.
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Investigation: WV counties spend opioid crisis money on jail instead of recovery

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Coal River Mountain Watch @coalrivermountain.bsky.social · Jul 5

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.”

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Vernon Haltom @vernon-haltom.bsky.social · Jul 5

“They work cheap” may be the worst reason to oppose abducting and disappearing people.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jul 5

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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Why the Texas floods were so severe

Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.

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