By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 What should the role of the states be in protecting human health and the environment? Last Friday, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Economy held a hearing to untangle…
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N.C. State Rep. Harrison: Let the EPA Do Its Job
TAGS: Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Coal Ash coal ash ponds Duke Energy EPA hydraulic fracking iLoveMountains Kentucky N.C. Politics North Carolina Politics state environmental policy
Organizational Roundup
Teaming Up For Virginia Appalachian Voices’ Virginia campaign team partnered with Downstream Strategies to help in their research for a report that details how the coal industry is reaping huge benefits from the Commonwealth of Virginia each year. Released in…
TAGS: Appalachian Voices Coal coal ash ponds Downstream Strategies iLoveMountains Mountaintop Removal NC Conservation Network Renewable Portfolio Standards Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Southern Environmental Law Center Tennessee Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act Virginia
Happy Labor Day from AV at the DNC
App Voices’ staff Lenny Kohm and Cat McCue arrive at CarolinaFest, one of the day-long kickoff events at the DNC Happy Labor Day! Appalachian Voices is in Uptown Charlotte today joining thousands of others to experience the 2012 Democratic National…
Tennessee Office Making Ground with State Legislature, TVA
In Tennessee, our staff is currently working with the state legislature to pass the Scenic Vistas Protection Act, a bill that would ban high elevation surface mining techniques such as mountaintop removal in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. In collaboration…
TAGS: Appalachian Voices iLoveMountains Mountaintop Removal Scenic Vistas Protection Act Tennessee the human cost
Rally to Save Ison Rock
Hundreds of citizens gathered at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16 to call on the EPA and White House to block a proposed mountaintop removal permit that would destroy Ison Rock Ridge in Wise County,…
TAGS: Air Traffic Control American University Appalachian Voices Ben Sollee Charlotte Coal Ash Daniel Martin Moore Dear Companion demonstration Dennis Kucinich EarthJustice EPA iLoveMountains Ison Rock Ridge Jim James John Yarmuth Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Louise Slaughter Louisville Mountaintop Removal Mountaintop removal permits My Morning Jacket Neko Case NRDC protest Sierra Club Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards The Alliance for Appalachia The Last Mountain Washington DC Wise County Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition
