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Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center provides free legal services to coal miners seeking to ensure safe working conditions and to victims of black lung seeking the benefits they have been promised.

We also represent coalfield residents struggling to protect clean drinking water, facing mine permits in their communities, and dealing with land damage and pollution from nearby mines.

Your gift will ensure the availability of high-quality legal representation to the citizens of the Appalachian coalfields. Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center is the only law firm in the country providing legal services for black lung, mine safety, and environmental impacts free of charge. Your gift makes this possible.

“One thing I know is that I found the right lawyer the day I called you! Thank you for your patience and encouragement—you got me through the long battle. Thank you for standing by me when I needed. God bless you.”
– Debra S. Slone, widow of a coal miner and black lung victim Walter Slone

With [ACLC Deputy Director Mary Cromer’s] legal expertise and many, many trips to meetings throughout the county and to Frankfort, Martin County Concerned Citizens grew to about 100 in-person participants with many more watching online as we became intervenors — to give our voice to how our public water system treated our public.”
– Nica McCoy, Martin County Concerned Citizens