Environment Archives — 100 Days in Appalachia

Tag: Environment

What Arabia Can Teach Appalachia About Floods

by Nicholas Brumfield on October 18, 2024 Comments are Disabled

Yemen is probably not the first place one thinks of when thinking of Appalachia and its damaging flooding. But maybe it should be.

Century Aluminum's Sebree smelter is located in Henderson County, Kentucky. Since it began operations in 1973, more than 10 billion pounds of aluminum have been created. Photo: Century Aluminum

Alternative Energy

The Green Smelter: Century Aluminum Promises Kentucky’s Next Big Economic Boost, But with Some Risk

by Dava Stewart on May 28, 2024 Comments are Disabled

In the 1980s, in the United States, coal and aluminum production were each thriving industries. The production of primary aluminum depended, at that time, on plentiful, inexpensive coal – and the rich mines of Appalachia supplied it. Coal production in Kentucky reached a peak in 1990, and dozens of aluminum […]

A Changing Climate

From Flooding to Fires: Appalachia’s Recreation Industry Faces Climate Change Challenges

by Colleen Kelly on April 25, 2024 Comments are Disabled

The impacts of climate change are steadily and exponentially being felt here in Appalachia just as they have across the globe, and environmental activists, scientists and outdoor enthusiasts alike find themselves in a race to counter the climate curve in the region. The discussions in some communities, however, have shifted […]

Red Terry traces the path of the pipeline on Poor Mountain and beyond in Appalachia, a stretch that includes the water supply for the nearby city of Roanoke. Credit: Elizabeth McGowan

Energy

For Tree-sitter, No Hiding from Heartbreak of Deal to Greenlight Mountain Valley Pipeline

by Elizabeth McGowan, Energy News Network on June 22, 2023 Comments are Disabled

BENT MOUNTAIN, Va. — Theresa “Red” Terry never wanted shades on the windows of her white clapboard farmhouse perched on the side of 2,600-foot Bent Mountain. Such coverings, she insisted, would only mar the 360-degree view of nature’s bounty she so relished. “Every window I looked out, all I could […]

A Changing Climate

‘When the Water Goes Down’: Eight Months Later, Eastern Kentucky Is Still Healing

by Skylar Baker-Jordan & P.B. Cooley on February 28, 2023 Comments are Disabled

Swiftly and violently did the rivers, creeks and streams swell. As the raging water rose in the middle of a night, bursts of lightning illuminated the flood just enough that one could see the angry deluge creep ever closer to homes, to churches, to businesses. For many, it swept away […]

Energy

Virginia Activists Fight to Protect Green Space from Data Center Development

by Elizabeth McGowan on September 15, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Prince William County conservationists had hoped a hitch in powering data centers in an adjacent metro D.C. county might doom dreams of an expansion there, but Dominion Energy says the grid is ready to accommodate growth. This is the second in a two-part series, read the first installment here. MANASSAS, […]