News

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ICV Trail one step closer to completion!

October 2, 2024

 In August, the Randell E. Nicholson Irrevocable Trust signed a trail easement agreement with Mountain Watershed Association (MWA). The easement allows the…

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Community Rallies around the Fight to Save the Allegheny Mountain

October 1, 2024
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Last week on Sept 26, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission hosted a Public Meeting regarding the Proposed Allegheny Mountain Tunnel Realignment Project The…

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Join the Fight to Save Allegheny Mountain

September 10, 2024

MWA is joining a citizen-led group to push back on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s plans to demolish the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel and…

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Gross! Rock snot in the Yough?

September 6, 2024
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Didymo (colloquially called “rock snot”) is an aquatic diatom native to cool-water regions of northern Europe and North America. It can grow…

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Laurel Highlands Roads and Community at Risk if Rustic Ridge Mine Expands

August 28, 2024
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In October 2021, LCT Energy, LP (LCT) filed a permit modification to expand its underground mining operations in Fayette and Westmoreland counties,…

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