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West Virginia environmental groups have sued the Forest Service for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the impacts of coal hauling in the Monongahela National Forest. The watershed is home to the critically endangered candy darter, a freshwater fish striped in bright green and orange. But environmentalists say trucks brimming with coal are spilling harmful sediment and pollutants into its waters. ...

Environmental groups are turning to legal action to pursue protections for the candy darter and the yellow-spotted woodland salamander, both of which exist only in small populations, mostly in West Virginia.

Environmental groups are turning to legal action to pursue protections for the candy darter and the yellow-spotted woodland salamander, both of which exist only in small populations, mostly in West Virginia.

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the harmful effects of coal hauling in the Monongahela National Forest. Coal hauling imperils the critically endangered candy darter as well as nearby habitat for other endangered species.

The U.S. Forest Service is facing legal action. The claim is that they failed to safeguard certain streams in West Virginia's Cherry River region within the Monongahela National Forest. These