We fight for
- Clean Water & healthy Land
- Miners’ Health & Safety
- Affordable, Clean Energy
- Climate-resilient Communities
- A Just Future for Appalachia
Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center
is a nonprofit law firm that confronts the legacy costs of natural resource extraction in Central Appalachia. We combine litigation, advocacy, and organizing to:
Defend miners and their families by winning black lung benefits and demanding safe working conditions
Protect land and people alongside grassroots groups against the harms of extractive industries
Advance fair policies that address coal’s legacy costs and invest in Appalachia’s future.
News & Articles
- Momentum builds in the House to pass promising bill to reform FEMAOn Wednesday, September 3rd, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee passed, by voice vote, the Fixing Emergency Management Act (FEMA) of 2025, a bipartisan bill to reform many aspects of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The bill includes several titles inclusive of numerous reforms to FEMA’s structure, program administration, and delivery of disaster aid. […]
- More Coal Miner Lives in Jeopardy as Silica Safeguard Delayed Yet AgainCoal Industry’s Attempts to Avoid Accountability Continue as Black Lung Epidemic Endures COAL COUNTRY – Measures that prevent deadly silica dust exposure among coal miners are indefinitely delayed, as coal industry lawyers and the Trump Administration’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reportedly continue to negotiate a settlement to the industry’s case to block safeguards […]
- One Bucket at a Time: A Staff Member’s Story of Flood Recovery in West VirginiaAppalachian Citizens’ Law Center’s fight for stronger flood resilience policies at the state and national levels is personal. Catastrophic flooding has touched the lives of nearly all of our staff and flood policy partners-–from the 1000-year Eastern Kentucky floods that nearly destroyed ACLC’s building in 2022, to the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene in North […]
