President Biden’s climate plan attempts to set America on a clear path towards carbon neutrality and updating our infrastructure to take into account the energy transition that needs to take place in our country to avoid further perpetuating the climate crisis. As he heads overseas to a climate conference in […]
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Steel-Making Coal Upturn Brings New Mine, Old Problems to WV Community
This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. This story was co-published with Southerly, a nonprofit journalism organization that covers the intersection of ecology, justice, and culture in the American South. It started with the noise, the round-the-clock roar of a […]
Read More‘It Just Roared’: N.C. Flooding Another Sign of Climate Change in Appalachia
The force of it still resonates. So much water, so fast, and with it, homes thrust off their foundations, campers and trucks swept miles away, boats now grounded a ways from any shore. In just moments, it was over; in its wake, six dead, more than $300 million of destruction, […]
Read MoreMeet the Virginia Conservationist Trying to Turn Old Coalfields Into Solar Farms
Brad Kreps directs the Nature Conservancy’s Clinch Valley Program, which is working to make the vision of developing solar energy projects on former coalfields a reality in central Appalachia. Chatter about the potential of covering played-out coalfields in central Appalachia with solar arrays has simmered for years. Progress on the […]
Read MorePhotos: Alabama Union Miners Enter Fourth Month of Strike, Thousands Rally for Wages and Benefits
Some 2,000 coal miners and allies attended a rally in Brookwood, Alabama, Wednesday in support of local United Mine Workers members as they enter the fourth month of a strike over contract negotiations with Warrior Met Coal. The strike, which began on April 1, 2021, came after miners working for […]
Read MoreFive Months Later, Eastern Kentuckians are Still Coping with Fallout of Spring Flooding
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Early on a rainy March morning in Jackson, Kentucky, Yolanda Goff found herself abandoning her trailer on Quicksand Road forever. She didn’t think the floodwater would crest so high, but when she woke that morning, it was in the yard and […]
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