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Mountaintop Removal Mining

Mountaintop Removal Mining

Client: Potomac RiverkeeperPotomac RiverkeeperShenandoah Riverkeeper
Location: Gerrardstown, WV
Date(s): January 2010 to December 2012
Services: Litigation
Issues: Land Use + Habitat Protection Energy + Climate Change

A team of CLA volunteer attorneys assisted the Potomac and Shenandoah Riverkeepers and Gerrardstown, West Virginia, prevent a quarry operator from clear cutting a mountaintop to operate a surface mine. The litigation before a West Virginia mining board resulted in required forest replanting, stream protection, and reduction of truck traffic through Gerrardstown, as well as implementation of other noise and air emission controls.

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