Climate activists walked out of classrooms and workplaces in more than 150 countries on Friday, Sept. 20 to demand stronger action on climate change. Mass mobilizations like this have become increasingly common in recent years. I’m a scholar of environmental communication who examines how people become engaged with solving dilemmas […]
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Settlement Reached Over Proposed Ohio Cracker Plant Air Permit
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Environmental groups have reached a settlement agreement with a petrochemical company in Ohio to beef up air pollution controls at a proposed petrochemical plant along the Ohio River. Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea-based Daelim Industrial Co. have proposed building a […]
Read MoreMeet the Young Appalachians Who Are Leading the Global Climate Strike
It looked like a climate strike was not going to happen in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. In the Appalachian city, a group of hopeful high schoolers and middle schoolers planned to join hundreds of thousands of young people and adults from as many as 150 countries in a demonstration Friday as […]
Read MorePaychecks Cut For W.Va. Blackjewel Miners; KY, VA Miners Still Waiting
This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. West Virginia employees of coal operator Blackjewel LLC have received their final paychecks more than two months after the company declared bankruptcy on July 1. In an agreement reached last week between the Department of Labor and the company, Blackjewel […]
Read MoreTimeline for Briefs Set in Blackjewel ‘Hot Goods’ Case, Miner Pay Remains Murky
The federal judge presiding over coal operator Blackjewel LLC’s bankruptcy has set a timeline in the “hot goods” dispute over millions of dollars worth of coal sitting in railcars in Kentucky and Virginia. Frank Volk, chief U.S. bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, gave the Labor Department, […]
Read MoreWhile “Zombie” Mines Idle, Cleanup And Workers Remain In Limbo
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. The sound of metal banging against metal broke the calm on the high mesa separating Colorado’s Paradox and Big Gypsum valleys. An old rusted headframe marked the entrance to an abandoned uranium mine that, from a distance, looked as if its […]
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