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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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I climb a boulder that juts out into rapids. The rushing water is so loud it drowns out my breath. I’ve come to the banks of the Chattooga River for solitude, for the way water carries away inner noise. I’m here early enough that I get a few moments of […]
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As a little kid growing up in Southeastern Ohio, I always looked forward to late March and early April. I loved these months for a lot of reasons; they signaled early spring, the promise of the end of the school year just around the corner, and the beautiful blooms peaking […]
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