Monthly Archives: June 2009

72 mile record-setting run to end mountaintop removal!

This is just amazing!!!! Frankly, we are speechless. While we waited in the halls of Congress for a Senate hearing to begin, our friend Will Harlan ran 72 miles along the TN-NC border to raise awareness! Thanks so much for

US Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on the Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Qual

On Thursday, July 25, over seventy supporters of the Appalachia Restoration Act (S 696) lined up outside the door of Dirksen Senate Building for a hearing on the bill. The hearing, held by the Committee on Environment and Public Works’

A day to shine on Capitol Hill

News coverage of yesterdays Senate hearing on mountaintop removal coal mining: The best headline thus far was printed before the hearing even started: Washington City Paper – Mountaintop Coal Mining Face Off Starts Now! As always, Ken Ward’s Coal Tattoo

News for the Marsh Fork Elementary School Rally of June 23rd, 2009

On Tuesday, June 23, a team from Appalachian Voices joined hundreds of people gathered at an anti-mountaintop removal coal mining rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School in West Virginia to protest the continuation of the destructive practice. The local and

Supreme Court Ruling Has Implications for Mountaintop Removal

This just in. Rob Perks of NRDC provides commentary on their blog, the Switchboard. It does not bode well that the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled 6-3 in favor of treating America’s waterways like dumps.  Specifically, the Court decided that

A Backyard Vegetable Garden

Story by Kathleen McFadden Talk about a shovel-ready project! Federal legislators may not have had home gardens in mind when they crafted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide funding for ready-to-go infrastructure projects, but First Lady Michelle Obama

Volunteers Put New Trail On The Map

Story and photo by Sarah Vig The Mountains to Sea Trail is halfway home. With over 500 of its 1000 miles completed, the ambitious project is well on its way to spanning the entire length of the state of North

The Modest Mayapple

Large leaves of the mayapple shelter a single white blossom, which later yields the plant’s fruit. Photo by Rick Mark

Story by Alison Singer What first caught my eye was the tightly wound green bundle atop the stem. They looked like closed umbrellas. “What are those?” I asked, pointing. “It’s Jack-in-the-Pulpit,” my friend told me, and I let the name

Former Appalachian Voices Director Mary-Anne Hitt Recognized by Alma Mater

Mary Anne Hitt, who served as Appalachian Voices’ Executive Director from spring 2004 until November, 2008, 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,

Appalachian Voices’ Attorney Puts Duke CEO Jim Rogers in The Hot Seat

While several dozen people were outside Duke Energy headquarters protesting CEO Jim Rogers’ decision to construct new coal-fired power plants in North Carolina and Indiana, Scott Gollwitzer, Appalachian Voices’ In-house Counsel, was inside asking questions at the annual shareholders’ meeting.

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