Resources: Your Rights in the Coalfields

The Strip Mining Handbook: A Coalfield Citizens' Guide to Using the Law to Fight back Against the Ravages of Strip Mining and Underground Mining. Book by Mark Squillace.  Environmental Policy Institute, 1990.

WV Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act: West Virginia Rules and Regulations. aka: "The Act."  State law which outlines how the federal law applied in West Virginia.

H ow to Fight Back. Canary Project of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC).Online at www.kftc.org/our-work/canary-project/resources/fight-back 

Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.  Federal Law online from the Office of Surface Mining, US Department of the Interior. www.osmre.gov/smcra.htm

Permit Hearings and Appeals Guide.  Department of Environmental Advocate.  West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.  Call the Citizens Advocate to receive a copy. at 1-800-654-5227 or find it online at   www.wvdep.org/Docs/13476_Permit Hearings and Appeals Guide.pdf   

Codes and Regulations from the West Virginia Division of Mining and Reclamation.  Online at www.wvdep.org/item.cfm?ssid=9&ss1id=39

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