Citizens Coal Council

Our mission is to inform, empower and work for and with communities affected by the mining, processing and use of coal.

In 1972 three coal-waste dams at a Pittston Coal operation on Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia collapsed. By the time the flood was over, 125 people were killed, another 1,100 were injured, and about 4,000 were left homeless. This event galvanized the grassroots movement in support of better regulation of the nation's coalfields. After a decade of grassroots pressure and spurred by...