Resources and Further Reading

  • "As coal companies point fingers, Wyoming County residents say they’re being poisoned by a contaminated creek"

    — Erin Beck, Mountain State Spotlight, March 2024

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  • "Gary WV residents detail concerns over discolored water."

    — Robert Castillo, WVVA News, Feb 2024

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  • In the game of musical mines, environmental damage takes a back seat

    — Ken Ward Jr., Alex Mierjeski and Scott Pham for ProPublica, April 2023

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  • "'All the water's bad': In McDowell County, you have to get creative to find safe drinking water."

    — By Hannah Rappleye and Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, June 2021

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  • An Army of Two Fights Pollution in West Virginia’s Waterways

    - David Kidd, Governing.com, Nov 2021

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  • Even with new legislation, it could be years before drinking water in West Virginia is free of toxic ‘forever chemicals’

    — Allen Siegler, Mountain State Spotlight, May 2023

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  • Hard Road of Hope documentary amplifies voices of West Virginians and their radical resolve

    — Documentary by Eleanor Goldfield, 2020

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  • From Polluted to Playground: It's Taken 25 Years to Clean Up the Cheat River

    — Brittany Patterson, WVPublic.org, June 2018

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  • What Water Options Are Available In The Coalfields?

    — Jessica Lilly, WVPublic.org, Jan 2015

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Studies and Advisories

  • West Virginia under toxic threat from highest industrial selenium pollution levels in the country

    — Mike Tony, West Virginia Gazette Mail, Nov 2021

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  • Study Finds WV Counties Among ‘Worst in Nation’ For Drinking Water Violations

    — Emily Allen, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Sept 2019

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  • Fish Consumption Advisory Implemented For Upper Mud Reservoir

    — Jack Walker, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, January 2024

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  • Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed

    — Lindberg et al, Duke University, July 2011

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  • Mountaintop removal mining and multiple illness symptoms: A latent class analysis

    — Science of the Total Environment, March 2019

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  • Acid mine drainage treatment facilities – reversing hundreds of years of pollution to bring Pennsylvania’s streams and rivers back to life

    — Dept of Environmental Protection, March 2022

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