Monthly Archives: October 2011

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: The Real Deal

Guest blog by Jim Deming Something good happened in Cleveland, Ohio this past Friday. In a city that has symbolized urban pollution since the 60’s and has taken some blows in the current economic recession, Bobby Kennedy came to town

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High Point Duke Energy Rate Hike Hearing Turns Out Large Crowd in Opposition to Increase

If Duke Energy was listening to the citizens gathered at High Point’s City Hall last night, they sure got a burning earful! Over one hundred private citizens turned out to express their extreme displeasure with Duke Energy’s attempt to return

Duke Energy’s Tough Times, Rate Hike Hearings Continue in Marion

On Tuesday Oct. 25, at the McDowell County courthouse in Marion, the N.C. Utilities Commission heard a succession of voices all proclaiming the same message: Do not approve the 17 percent rate hike proposed by Duke Energy Carolinas. Public hearings

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NPR’s Planet Money Talks About the True Cost of Coal

Just how much do we pay for environmental pollution? How much are polluters taxing the health of our communities, families and friends? Find out by listening to Planet Money’s podcast on the true full cost of coal and other forms

Appalachian Treasures: Heartland America Tour

On the surface, the American Heartland does not have many similarities with Central Appalachia. Thousands of acres of flat agricultural fields do not necessarily bring to mind the rolling forested hills of Appalachia. But there are more similarities than meet

Lisa Jackson has had enough!

In this editorial, published by the Los Angeles Times, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson makes her case for protecting our clean air and water from an unprecedented congressional attack on basic environmental and health safeguards. Join the movement to

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Shooting our Ecological Footprint

Beauty isn’t limited to blue skies. Sometimes a photograph can capture the resilience of a besieged hemlock or the bleak gray of a mountaintop removal site and reveal beauty in the midst of ecological turmoil. With that in mind, Appalachian

The Solar Decathlon

By Jeff Deal Those weren’t spaceships on Washington D.C.’s National Mall in September — they were entries for this year’s U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Every two years, the competition challenges teams of college students to design, build and

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Other Tidbits

Rallying for Ison Rock Ridge In southwestern Virginia, a mountain known as Ison Rock Ridge — along with several headwater streams — is slated for destruction to access the coal seams inside it. During October, Appalachian Voices, the Southern Appalachian

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Higher Fines for Big Coal in Kentucky Clean Water Act Case

By Erin Savage The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet recently reached a settlement of $507,000, with Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc., a mountaintop removal coal mining company in eastern Kentucky. The fine tops previous record-setting fines issued in Appalachian Voices’

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