Category: Natural Resources
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Citizen Groups Challenge WVDEP’s Flawed Attempt to Weaken Water Quality
March 27, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Cindy Rank, WV Highlands Conservancy, 304-924-5802 Angie Rosser, WV Rivers Coalition, 304-637-7201 Charleston, WV (March 27, 2013) – At today’s public hearing, WVDEP will hear arguments from citizens on the lack of scientific justification and consideration of the public interest in its attempt to pass an emergency rule…
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Climate Change and Biological Diversity
Thomas E. Lovejoy, a conservation biologist, presented a lecture on climate change in January at the West Virginia University College of Law. Lovejoy explored the past and present impacts of climate change on nature and biodiversity as well as how managing ecosystems could reduce the amount of climate change that will occur. In 2012, Lovejoy…
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Lobby as a Citizen for Strong Shale Gas Rules and Legislation! Free support!
The WV Legislature 2013 Regular Session is open. Please remind your representatives that we have not forgotten that the Horizontal Well Act still has many problems, and needs to be strengthened. For many of us, Charleston is far away, but that should not deter us from contacting our representatives by phone, mail, or email. However, if you do decide to…