• American Rivers names Gauley River to America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2025, due to toxic coal mining pollution

    American Rivers names Gauley River to America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2025, due to toxic coal mining pollution

    The threat of toxic pollution from coal strip mining in the headwaters of one of the Gauley’s primary tributaries — the Cherry River — has made it one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2025. In Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties in West Virginia, South Fork Coal Company operates a network of strip mines, haul roads and a coal preparation plant…

  • No Valid Existing Rights for South Fork Coal Company

    No Valid Existing Rights for South Fork Coal Company

    ABRA—together with the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and Appalachian Voices—has been deeply involved in exposing and challenging an illegal coal haul road used by South Fork Coal Company in the Monongahela National Forest. After these groups filed formal complaints last

  • Andrew Young explains the South Fork Coal issue

    The Cherry River uprising: A David vs. Goliath showdown to defend the Monongahela By Andrew Young, chair of the WVHC Extractive Industries Committee and staff attorney for the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance    Since 2023, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, together with