Appalachian mountain valley in fall foliage. This is Righthand Fork near Rock Creek, WV, on Coal River Mountain. Coal giant Alpha Metallurgical Resources has submitted an application to strip mine (mountaintop removal) 670 acres of the ridges at the head of this and adjacent hollers.

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

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

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

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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

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

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.

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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Daryl Hannah, Vernon Haltom, and Sarah Haltom after Daryl and Sarah were arrested and released protesting against mountaintop removal coal mining in WV and for a safe new school for the students of Marsh Fork Elementary. Daryl and Vernon are wearing “Stop Mountaintop Removal” shirts. 30 people were arrested that day, June 23, 2009, including climate scientist James Hansen and 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Judy Bonds.

30 people got arrested that day, including @dhlovelife.bsky.social. #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

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

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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

Forested mountain with a river, and text reading “Happy Earth Day from Coal River Mountain Watch!”

Happy Earth Day from Coal River Mountain Watch! #EarthDay #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

Aerial view of a dust cloud from a blast at a mountaintop removal coal mine, drifting through a hollow with homes.

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

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

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 ...

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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Please chip in to help a frontline group fighting the coal industry *literally in the trenches* #EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice

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

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.

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...

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 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?...

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?...

26 years on the frontlines battling multi-billion dollar coal companies. #EndMountainTopRemoval #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice

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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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 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?...

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