Groups Trying to Enforce Clean Water Act

By John McFerrin The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined with the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Appalachian Voices, and the Sierra Club in a notice…

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Groups Ask Corps to Not Let West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Make Pipeline Permitting Easier

By John McFerrin As reported in the May, 2019, issue of The Highlands Voice, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has changed the conditions that are placed on…

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Thoughts from our president

June, in addition to providing another abundance of rain, has produced a flurry of information and actions that will be of interest to West Virginia Highlands Conservancy members. Proposed Pump…

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West Virginia Supreme Court Stands Up for Surface Owners

By John McFerrin The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that a gas company may not use surface of one landowner’s land in order to extract gas from…

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