President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders that aim to boost domestic coal production, citing the need to meet rising demand from artificial intelligence. “We will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands and we’ll streamline permitting, we ...
In 1994, the Tri-State Citizens Mining Network was formed due to the impact of longwall mining on the community and the environment. By 2007, they had their first paid staff, changed their name to the Center for Coalfield Justice (CCJ) and expanded their work to examine fracking practices. ...
Two Center for Coalfield Justice staff members have returned from Busan, South Korea, where world leaders and organizations gathered last week to hammer out details on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution. But negotiations on what would have been the first-ever United ...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, a body of evidence points to the possible ...
The popularity of Center For Coalfield Justice’s annual Seed Swap is growing faster than a zucchini in summertime. Saturday’s event, held at Citizens Library in Washington, drew more than 200 visitors for an afternoon of swapping and collecting seeds and bulbs, and learning about a ...
