Center for Biological Diversity: CHARLESTON, W.Va. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it would consider protecting the yellow-spotted woodland salamander under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now has 12 months to decide whether to protect the salamander, which only lives in an Appalachian rock outcrops targeted by coal mining.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to decide whether the yellow-spotted woodland salamander could warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act.
In a decision that could slow the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit struck the water quality certification that West Virginia regulators issued fo
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Appalachian Mountain Advocates, a law firm that’s fought mountaintop removal mining, requested a 45-day extension from the original public comment deadline of Dec. 12.