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Posts by James Cato

Connecting the East Palestine Derailment to the Yough Watershed

By James Cato | April 3, 2023 | 0

In the months following the devastating train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that occurred on February 3rd, 2023, Mountain Watershed Association (MWA) has received many inquiries from residents of the…

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Finding Hope in Rostraver’s Wellpad Denial

By James Cato | March 7, 2023 | 0

After 10 months of hearings, presentations, and appeals from the public, the Rostraver Zoning Hearing Board denied Olympus Energy’s application for a special exemption to build its Hera Well Pad…

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MAX Environmental Withdraws Expansion Application!

By James Cato | March 1, 2023 | 0

MAX Environmental, the hazardous waste landfill overlooking Yukon PA, wants to get bigger. Residents of the town want the opposite. When the company applied for expansion permits along Sewickley Creek,…

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Urge Blackstone to Divest from Invenergy!

By James Cato | February 9, 2023 | 0

            The threat of a gas-fired “Allegheny Energy Center” (AEC) has loomed over our region since 2016, when Invenergy proposed the power plant along the Youghiogheny River in Buena Vista. Although…

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Residents Turn Out to Stop MAX Expansion

By James Cato | December 12, 2022 | 0

MAX Environmental, the hazardous waste landfill overlooking Yukon PA, wants to get bigger. To extend profits, it needs to expand as its existing landfills reach capacity. So the company has…

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Free Dinner and “Gather” Screening Dec. 4!

By James Cato | November 28, 2022 | 0

On December 4, 2022, at 5:00pm, Mountain Watershed Association will be hosting a free screening for the documentary “Gather” at Sanaview Farms in Champion, PA. “Gather” is a film about…

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Curious how to say the name of the river? It's pronounced "yawk-a-gainey" or simply the "yawk." "Youghiogheny" is a Lenape word that means "water following in a contrary direction."

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