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Projects. Coal River Mountain Watch is working on multiple fronts to fight mountaintop removal coal mining and build the movement for environmental justice in Appalachian communities impacted by coal mining. Judy Bonds Center for Appalachian Preservation: Coal River Mountain Watch's community center, office, volunteer housing, and sustainable ...

Born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of West ia, Julia "Judy" Bonds was a coal miner's daughter and director of Coal River Mountain Watch. Bonds emerged as a formidable community leader against a highly destructive mining practice called mountaintop removal that is steadily ravaging the Appalachian mountain range and forcing ...

As the codirector of Coal River Mountain Watch in Whitesville, West ia, Bonds has for more than a decade been at the fore of the battle against what she calls "King Coal." After she began witnessing firsthand how mountaintop removal coal mining was irreparably damaging her region's land, wildlife, and people, she fought back by ...

Projects. Coal River Mountain Watch is working on multiple fronts to fight mountaintop removal coal mining and build the movement for environmental justice in Appalachian communities impacted by coal mining. Judy Bonds Center for Appalachian Preservation: Coal River Mountain Watch's community center, office, volunteer housing, and sustainable ...

This article examines the environmental justice efforts of the Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) in Boone County, West ia. The CRMW is a grassroots group formed in 1998 to fight the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining in West ia.

Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) came together in 1998 in response to the fear and frustration of people living near or downstream from huge mountaintop removal sites. Their goal is to educate and mobilize citizens who themselves will determine how their resources are used and who they will benefit.

In response to Coal River Mountain Watch's objection to this permit, the $2-billion coal company Contura Energy states that they are "required to comply with WVDEP's air quality rules related to controlling fugitive particulate matter." However, we have aerial footage from Nov. 13, 2020, showing their massive dust cloud from an existing site ...

Newsletter; Facebook; ... A team of creek hikers consisting of members of Active Southern West ia and the Coal River Mountain Watch haul a boat full of garbage pulled from a …

Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is a nonprofit organization and our mission is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal mining, to …

The 2021 recipients are: Buckhannon Watershed Association, Coal River Group, Coal River Mountain Watch, Davis Creek Watershed Association, Forks of Coal Natural Area Foundation, Fourpole Creek Watershed Association, Friends of the Blackwater, Friends of Deckers Creek, Friends of the Cacapon River, Friends of the Cheat, Friends of the Hughes ...

Coal River Mountain Watch's playbook included protest, letter-writing campaigns and the use of the legal system. To raise awareness around Marsh Fork, In 2006, one of the group's members, Ed Wiley, walked from Charleston to Washington, D.C., to raise the issue to West ia's Congressional leadership.

Vernon Haltom's group, Coal River Mountain Watch pushed for the state to take another look at plans for a coal silo near an elementary school. ... Sign up for our free newsletter

December 16, 2019. Coal River Mountain Watch's history of resistance to mountaintop coal mining is plastered across the wood-paneled walls …

In a special email message last night, Coal River Mountain Watch director Vernon Haltom announced the passing of Bonds, the Goldman Prize winner and Executive Director of Coal River Mountain Watch. Bonds, 58, had battled advanced stage cancer over the past several months. "One of Judy's last acts was to go on a speaking trip, even though she was not feeling well, shortly before her …

This site is permitted for mountaintop removal but is currently used as a sludge impoundment.Courtesy of upcoming documentary: American Coal

Two Decades Of Resistance: Coal River Mountain Watch Takes Stock At 20 Brittany Patterson Coal River Mountain Watch's history of resistance to mountaintop coal mining is plastered across the wood panelled walls of the group's modest office in…

During my summer internship with the Coal River Mountain Watch, I assisted with various projects related to their efforts to fight coal permits in the Coal River Valley and build economic ...

In late July, workers at Coal River Mountain Watch in Naoma, West ia, requested voluntary union recognition from the environmental nonprofit organization's board of directors. They anticipate full recognition of the Coal River Mountain Watch Union, organized with the Industrial Workers of the World, by month's end. The campaign to unionize CRMW is being led … Continue reading "Coal ...

The big announcement 10 years ago: After 6 years of hard work, from school board meetings to science to protests to a 450-mile walk to arrests to enduring viole nce and threats, Coal River Mountain Watch and allies succeeded in getting a new school for the kids of Marsh Fork Elementary.. Huge thanks to all who made it happen, especially Judy Bonds (shown here only 8 …

The tree huggers she's referring to are a few doors down on Coal River Road, the nonprofit Coal River Mountain Watch. The activists oppose mountaintop coal removal on Coal River Mountain, which involves blasting away the mountain to get at the coal within.

Coal River Mountain Watch PO Box 303 Naoma, WV 25140 304-854-2182, coalriver[at]crmw[dot]net

Coal River Mountain Watch, Naoma, WV. 5,829 likes · 42 talking about this · 66 were here. The mission of Coal River Mountain Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by...

By combining art and other media, AWTT offers resources to inspire a new generation of engaged Americans who will act for the common good, our communities, and the Earth.' Coal River Mountain Watch has 8 of these beautiful detailed cards left that Judy had signed. Own a piece of history with these.

With the state's inaction, Eunice residents began reaching out to southern West ia's activist network. Shelia Walk talked to her son, Junior Walk, outreach coordinator at Coal River Mountain Watch, and Vernon Haltom, the executive director, for advice on potential violations to watch for and who at the DEP to contact.

Coal River Mountain Watch has opposed recent applications for new and renewed permits for surface mining on the mountain made by Republic Energy, saying dust from renewed blasting procedures would ...

Coal River Mountain Watch objects to renewal of permit S301004 operated by former Massey Energy subsidiary Marfork Coal Company, now a subsidiary of Alpha Metallurgical Resources. You can also object. Include the permit number, S301004, in your objection by email to [email protected] by Friday, June 18, at 5 PM.

He began writing anonymously for a newsletter published by Coal River Mountain Watch, a local watchdog organization devoted to stopping mountaintop removal. Now 23, Walk has been working with the organization more than four years and serves as its outreach coordinator. The work, however, has prompted backlash.

As soon as he decided to take a job with the Coal River Mountain Watch, his father, who was still employed by the coal industry at the time and feared the …

By Heather Moyer. This is part 2 (read part 1) on my visit to see mountaintop removal coal mining sites in West ia with Coal River Mountain Watch.Junior Walk and I are standing where a mountain used to be. We're on a pile of rocks surrounded by even more piles of rocks and boulders.

Coal River Mountain Watch, Naoma, WV. 5,830 likes · 33 talking about this · 66 were here. The mission of Coal River Mountain Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by...

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The environmental movement lost a leader Monday night with the death of Judy Bonds, executive director of Coal River Mountain Watch. Bonds, 58, …