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Coal

W.Va. Lawmakers Remain Desperate to Prop Up the Dying Coal Industry. Residents are Paying the Cost With Higher Electric Bills.

by Lucas Manfield, Mountain State Spotlight on March 15, 2021 Comments are Disabled

This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. In response to pressure from utilities and consumer advocates, West Virginia lawmakers have watered down a bill originally designed to make it difficult — if not impossible — for utilities to shut down the […]

Environment

Commentary: New Uses For Former Mine Lands Stop at Economic Potential, But Appalachian Species Are Thriving on Rehabilitated Sites

by Wally Smith on February 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

“Hey! We’ve got something!” There’s excitement in the college student’s voice as they call me to an overturned log in the forest where we’re spending the afternoon. Instead of our usual menu of field trips to off-campus nature preserves and parks across southwest Virginia, COVID-19 has forced my Vertebrate Zoology […]

Agriculture

AppHarvest Promotes New Ag Methods in Appalachia

by Liz Carey on December 11, 2020 Comments are Disabled

A start-up, backed by nearly half-billion-dollar investment, seeks to create living wages and sustainable agricultural practices in the region. Some worry about the impact on traditional farmers and others about the source of the funding. AppHarvest, the brainchild of Jonathan Webb, son of Corbin, Kentucky, hopes to deliver indoor, large-scale […]

Pipelines

Federal Regulators Are Rewriting Environmental Rules So a Massive Pipeline Can Be Built Across West Virginia

by Ken Ward Jr., Mountain State Spotlight on December 9, 2020 Comments are Disabled

This story was originally co-published by Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit newsroom covering West Virginia, and ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Last month, a federal appeals court blocked one of the key permits for construction of a massive natural gas pipeline that cuts through West Virginia and that […]

Young demonstrators join the International Youth Climate Strike event at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

•Generation Zeitgeist

Commentary: I’m a Youth Climate Activist, Not an Environmentalist

by Béla Williams on December 7, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Even though I have marched with climate strikes, helped organize protests and advocated for a Green New Deal, I am not an environmentalist. It sounds contradictory: how could someone who has fought against a pipeline being built through their town, gone on strike in the name of fossil fuel divestment […]

Coal hard cash

Blackjewel Coal Moves To Liquidate, Leaving Millions Unpaid To Workers And Regulators

by Sydney Boles on December 7, 2020 Comments are Disabled

This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley Resource. The convoluted bankruptcy of coal company Blackjewel has hit another turn of events as the company’s former CEO moved to liquidate the company. A federal judge is considering a motion submitted last week to convert the bankruptcy from Chapter 11 […]