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Save the date!
Fall Review and Annual Meeting on Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31, 2021 The theme of this year’s Fall Review is Climate Change. Although plans are preliminary, on Saturday we […]
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Thoughts from our president
September is here and once again we will see the spectacular annual transformation of the mountains to the vibrant shades of orange, yellow, and red. It is very interesting to read […]
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“Finish It!” – But How?
By Hugh Rogers “Corridor H—Finish It!” say the faded blue stickers on more than a few trucks around here. The stickers are old but the message still lives. In June, […]
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DEP levies $51K fine for Mountaineer XPress Pipeline water pollution violations
By Mike Tony West Virginia environmental regulators have again fined the operator of the Mountaineer XPress Pipeline for water pollution violations. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has assessed […]
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Mining Declining
This chart from the United States Energy Information Administration graphically shows the decline in coal production in the United States. It shows a 24% decrease from 2019 to 2020. The change is […]
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Board Highlights
By John McFerrin For the last time in what we hope will be a long time, we popped into our Zoom boxes for the regular summer meeting of the West […]
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Meet the New Guy!
A self-introduction by Cory Chase Hello Highlands Voice readers! My name is Cory Chase and I was recently hired as the new Program Director for the WV Highlands Conservancy (WVHC). […]
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Now What Happens?
By John McFerrin In July, 2021, the developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced that they were cancelling the project. Depending on one’s point of view, there was joy, jubilation, weeping, […]
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Changes Coming to Endangered Species Act Implementation
Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act in 1973 to provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened fish, wildlife, plants and their natural habitats Under the Act, agencies are required to […]
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The History of the World
Keeping watch on the summer skies, the lolling clouds, the rising curls of sidewalk heat, I might hold in mind that a scant three years ago, up in the ascending […]
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