Monthly Archives: April 2009

Community delivers letter to DMME urging denial of Ison Rock Ridge permit with over 300 signatures.

Encouraging news from our friends in Virginia at Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards: Contact: Kathy Selvage (276) 523-4380, (276) 219-2721 Adam Wells (276) 523-4380, (804) 240-4372 samsva@gmail.com www.samsva.org Community delivers letter to DMME urging denial of Ison Rock Ridge permit with

A former volunteer turned intern turned App Voices’ top Legislative Associate ties the knot!

J.W. Randolph, our crack Washington, DC Legislative Associate who started his career with Appalachian Voices at our weekly volunteer nights, married his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth Vance in a beautiful wedding ceremony on April 18, 2009 in Chattanooga, TN. J.W. is

Dine Out for the Mountains!

High Country Outdoor Film Festival

First Annual Mountain Aid

HELP Make the “NC SAVE$ ENERGY” Program a Reality!

Help NC SAVE$ ENERGY make North Carolina’s homes energy efficient, protects our climate and helps to stop mountaintop removal coal! We want to ask for your help in a new campaign Appalachian Voices has joined. NC SAVE$ ENERGY, an independent

Cliffside Protest Dominates Downtown Charlotte on Monday

Charlotte, NC – On Monday, April 20th, 2009 over 300 citizens took a stand against the proposed Cliffside coal-fired power plant, and 44 were willingly arrested. The demonstration was organized by a coalition of over a dozen environmental, faith-based and

Former Executive Director Receives Award

Former Appalachian Voices’ executive director Mary Anne Hitt recently received the University of Tennessee’s Notable Woman award. The award, given every year since 1995 by the University of Tennessee Commission for Women, honors “a woman whose accomplisments bring distinction to

Resolution in Support of Developing a Wind Farm on Coal River Mountain (H.C.R. 52) killed in Committ

“Controversial” resolution – introduced by Raleigh County Delegate Sally Susman with 41 Co-Sponsors and strong Raleigh County support – prevented from going to House Floor for a vote CHARLESTON, WV – Early Wednesday evening, Speaker Rick Thompson and other members

Appalachian Mountains Preservation Act Still on the Table in North Carolina

Story by Sarah Vig Mountaintop removal is hard to ignore when it’s in your backyard. This is a well-known fact for Bo Webb, whose home on Cherry Pond Mountain lies near an active mountaintop removal mine. In his recent letter

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