Who Are We?

A Few Proud Accomplishments

Legislative:

Referendum on Class A Landfill sitings . . . 1990

Groundwater Protection Act . . . 1991

BRC Nuclear Waste Ban . . . 1991

Banning Commercial Medical Waste Incineration . . . 1991

Comprehensive Solid Waste Act . . . 1991

Hazardous Waste Siting Law . . . 1992

Rails-to-Trails Enabling Law . . . 1992

Sewage Sludge Regulation . . . 1993

Banning Commercial Solid Waste Incineration . . . 1993

Off-Road Vehicles Regulation . . . 1993/94

"Cancer Creek" Dioxin Standards . . . 1993/94

Creation of DEP Environmental Advocate . . . 1994

Interim Non-game, Natural Heritage Funding . . . 1994/95/96

Campaign Finance Reform . . . 1995

School Pesticide Act . . . 1995

Permanent Non-game Program Funding . . . 1995

Banning Nuclear Power Plants . . . 1996

Stopped Self-Audit Privilege ("Dirty Secrets") . . . 1995/96/97

Stopped "Flood Thy Neighbor" . . . 1996/97 

Other Accomplishments

Winner of US EPA Environmental Learning Award . . . 1990

Created North Charleston Passive Park . . . 1996

 Defeat of:

Wallback Medical Waste Incinerator . . . 1990

Barbour County Mega Landfill . . . 1990

Kanawha County Mega Landfill . . . 1991

Webster County Mega Landfill . . . 1991

Jane Lew Medical Waste Incinerator . . .1991

Rhone-Polanc Chemical Landfill . . . 1992

DuPont Hazardous Waste Landfill . . . 1992

McDowell County Mega Landfill . . . 1993

Marion County Sewage Sludge Proposal . . . 1994

Programs and Services

Comprehensive statewide policy creation and coordination

Coordination of responses to environmental policies

Legislative Presence

Lending statewide support to local issues

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 Events

E-Day! during the Legislative Session

Annual Retreat each June

Annual Convention each Sept.

Mother Jones Award

Earth Day Festival

 WVEC Membership Organizations

Appalachian South Folk Life Center

Appalachian Center for the Economy and Environment

Blue Heron Environmental Network

Christians for the Mountains

Citizens for Clean Elections (WV)

Cleanbrier

Coal River Mountain Watch

Concerned Citizens Coalition of Roane & Calhoun Counties

Concerned Citizens of Whiting's Neck

Creekside Anglers

Ecology Coalition of Morgan County

Friends of Blackwater Canyon

Friends of Deckers Creek

Friends of the Cheat

Friends of the Lower Greenbrier

Friends of the Mountains

Greenbrier River Trail Association

Greenbrier River Watershed Association

Interfaith Climate Change Network

Jefferson County Watershed Coalition

Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle

LaPaix Farm

Morris Creek Watershed Association

Mountain Institute

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

Plateau Action Network

Potomac Water Watch

Save The Eastern Panhandle

Scrabble Rabble

Shavers Fork Coalition

Sierra Club - WV Chapter

Sierra Student Coalition WVU

Sleepy Creek Watershed Association

Stewards of the Potomac Highlands

Sustainable Living for WV

Sustainable West Virginia

Three Rivers Avian Center

Trout Unlimited - Mountaineer Chapter

Upper Monongahela River Association

Web of Life Ecology Center

West Virginia Native Plant Society

West Virginia Citizen Action Group

West Virginia Council of Churches

West Virginia Herb Association

West Virginia Highlands Conservancy

West Virgina Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign

West Virginia Rivers Coalition

West Virginia Wilderness Coalition

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