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UMW and Sierra Club praise Manchin bills aiming to clean up, revitalize coal communities

UMW and Sierra Club praise Manchin bills aiming to clean up, revitalize coal communities
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April 29, 2021 - 6:05 pm
Organizations ranging from the United Mine Workers to the Sierra Club are expressing support for bills introduced by Senator Joe Manchin affecting coal communities.
Cecil Roberts
“The economic situation for many families and communities in the Appalachian coalfields is already catastrophic,” stated Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America.
“Things will not get better by themselves. Congress needs to act this year to pass the RECLAIM Act and the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Fee Extension Act, as well as other initiatives to provide job, training and further assistance to dislocated coal miners and their families.” ....

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Proposed rollbacks to storage tank act die in legislature

Proposed rollbacks to storage tank act die in legislature
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April 9, 2021 - 1:43 pm
CHARLESTON, W.Va. Legislation which would have eroded many of the protections included in the 2014 Above Ground Storage Tank Act in West Virginia has been declared dead for the session in Charleston.
The measure would have given exemptions to certain sized tanks along waterways in West Virginia, even in the “zones of critical concern.” Those are areas where the tanks were located in close proximity to a drinking water in-take source.
“These last tanks were what we are holding onto because it’s so important. We were glad to hear cooler heads prevailed and it died,” said Karan Ireland with the West Virginia Sierra Club. ....

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W.Va. Lawmakers Remain Desperate To Prop Up The Dying Coal Industry. Residents Are Paying The Cost With Higher Electric Bills.

A coal barge travels down the Kanawha River in Charleston.
This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org.
In response to pressure from utilities and consumer advocates, West Virginia lawmakers have watered down a bill originally designed to make it difficult if not impossible for utilities to shut down the state’s struggling coal plants.
The bill would have forced the state’s coal plants to continue to “burn” coal at 2019 rates and gave three different state agencies including one created solely for the purpose of promoting the state’s extraction industry veto power over future closures. ....

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More environmental rollbacks moving through West Virginia's Legislature | News

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A bill speeding through the Legislature would further weaken landmark chemical tank safety rules â passed after the 2014 spill at Freedom Industries near Charleston that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people (pictured) â by excluding the natural gas industry from the regulation. Another measure moving through the legislative process would update pollution standards to allow industries to release higher amounts of some types of chemicals.
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By Erin Beck
Mountain State Spotlight
Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021
A bill speeding through the Legislature would further weaken landmark chemical tank safety rules â passed after the 2014 spill at Freedom Industries near Charleston that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people (pictured) â by excluding the natural gas industry from the regulation. Another measure moving through the legislative process would update pollution standards to allow ....

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W.Va. bill accused of propping up coal industry as residents pay the cost with higher electric bills

This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. ....

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