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Green and Prosperous Valley Vision: SRK’s Chesapeake Bay Trust Collaboration
Shenandoah Valley Clean Water Collaboration Creating a Smart, Green, and Economically Prosperous Watershed Potomac Riverkeeper Network has obtained…
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Upper Potomac Riverkeeper Leads Fight Against Mining Permit in Pennsylvania
Upper Potomac Riverkeeper Brent Walls joined Friends of Tom’s Creek (FOTC) to oppose the expansion of operations for Specialty Granules, Inc…
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Threatens Shenandoah River Campaign
The proposed construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would impact the headwaters of the…
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Toxic Wastewater Discharges from Coal Power Plants
EPA’s 2015 “Effluent Limitation Guideline” Rule was developed to deal with the discharge of toxic metals and other pollutants removed from coal plants’ air…
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Big Springs Filtration Plant & Firefighting Chemical Contamination
EPA issued a lifetime health advisory (LHA) in 2016 that gave a limit of 70 parts per trillion for PFOS and…
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Clean Water is Under Attack
The Administration has directed the EPA to take sweeping measures to undo clean water protections under the Clean Water Rule intended to safeguard the…
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Safe Disposal of Coal Ash at Possum Point Campaign
PROJECT UPDATE: Virginia lawmakers have approved legislation to require the state’s largest…
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No Potomac Pipeline Campaign
In 2016, behind the scenes, without public input, a West Virginia gas company called Mountaineer Gas quietly laid the groundwork for a fracked gas…
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Stopping Alexandria Sewage Overflow Campaign
Like Washington D.C., the historic downtown section of Alexandria uses a combined sewer system that dumps untreated sewage…
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Hog Factory Farm on Big Cove Creek
A small community is fighting against a large hog Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) or factory farm in Fulton County, PA. This factory-like facility would…
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