Source: Public Justice, Originally published on 1.13.16 A coalition of animal protection, consumer rights, food safety, and whistleblower protection groups is challenging a North Carolina law designed to deter whistleblowers and undercover investigators from publicizing information about corporate misconduct. Public Justice is representing all of the groups in the coalition. Under the law, organizations and journalists who

By: Ron Barnett, Greenville Online Originally published: March 16, 2016 Pickens County has filed a third-party complaint in the coal ash lawsuit, adding MRR Southern, LLC, the parent company of MRR Pickens, as a defendant in the case, according to court documents. Also, Circuit Judge Robin Stilwell, who denied MRR Pickens’ motion for a temporary injunction

By: Ron Sobczak, Sierra Club Upstate March 2016 Bulletin You may have read about the proposed coal ash landfill in Pickens. Coal ash is the generic term referring to several very distinct materials produced when we combust coal to produce electricity. We need places to safely store the huge amounts of coal ash generated from coal power plants. The

By: Vince Jackson, Independent Mail Originally Published: January 31, 2016 PICKENS COUNTY — The Pickens County Council has retained the services of an environmental lawyer in the ongoing controversy involving the possible dumping of coal ash in the Liberty area. Spartanburg attorney Gary W. Poliakoff has been retained by the county to look at the

By: Ron Barnett, Greenville Online Originally Published: February 18, 2016 The company that wants to build a landfill for coal ash near Liberty used “deceit, fraud, misrepresentation” and “bare-faced lies” to get state approval to bring in coal ash without Pickens County’s knowledge, an attorney for the county told a circuit judge Thursday. Robert Goings,