MINE EXPANSION THREATENS THE WATERSHED
A coal mine expansion threatens MWA’s multi-million dollar investment in clean water and healthy streams. Help us stop the Rustic Ridge Mine complex.
MWA has constructed five treatment systems to clean the polluted water escaping abandoned coal mines. We have restored over 70% of the watershed, and only 14 of the 47 stream miles remain impaired.
Ongoing or planned coal mining here could reverse three decades of important restoration work. We need your help to ensure this investment in clean water is not undone.
OUR CAMPAIGN
On June 27, 2025, MWA filed a legal appeal against the PA Department of Environmental Protection. This appeal challenges the approval of the Rustic Ridge 1 expansion.
MWA has retained outside legal counsel. Our goal is to raise $350,000 to support our ongoing legal challenge against the Rustic Ridge expansion to protect our watershed's health.
While the legal challenge is ongoing, MWA has reached an agreement with LCT Energy that protects 11,000 feet of headwater streams from mining impacts until the Environmental Hearing Board of Pennsylvania hears our case. Our legal team has already helped protect these vital headwater streams, but we need support to keep going.
