Latest Reports From Appalachian Voices
Ensuring an Affordable, Transparent, and Accountable Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is vitally important to the Southeast. TVA is the largest federally owned electric utility, and it manages everything from flood control to river navigation and provides recreation and economic development.
Clean Energy Tax Credits: Working for Appalachia
The report features an overview of these tax credits, national and state impacts, 20+ project examples and spotlights on installers and key partners from the region.
Rural Energy for America Program: Working for Appalachia
This report highlights investments in energy efficiency and clean energy that Central Appalachian businesses and schools have undertaken in recent years with support from the Rural Energy for America Program,…
Modeling a Just Transition in Virginia’s Coalfields
This report describes Southwest Virginia coalfield leaders’ perspectives on new energy technologies in their communities and details best practices for community engagement for energy projects. The report shares the results…
Benefits for Coal Miners with Black Lung Falling Behind
Monthly Benefit Rate Hasn’t Kept Up With Cost of Living or Inflation, Leaving Sick Miners and Their Families without an Adequate Safety Net Tens of thousands of coal miners across…
Reforesting Mine Lands through the Carbon Market
One nature-based solution for two deep challenges This white paper by Carbon Removal Fellow Diana Dombrowski explores how carbon offset markets could help reforest mine land in Central Appalachia. The…
The Status and Impact of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
With the most difficult and risky work remaining, the project is far from complete This report released on Sept. 20, 2022 — and updated in August 2023 — details the…
NATIONAL TO NEIGHBORHOODS: Catalyzing Opportunities for Coal-Impacted Communities
This regional report released by the Reclaiming Appalachia Coalition in January 2021 is the third in a series and further seeks to spur innovative economic development throughout Appalachia in communities…
Pressing Pause on Utility Shutoffs
How Virginia Could Save Lives by Establishing Shutoff Policies for High-Risk Periods This report, released on Nov. 14, 2022, details how Virginia’s current shutoff policies for electric, gas, and water…
Save Energy, Grow Jobs
How investments in renewable and efficient resources could bring thousands of jobs to the TVA region The Tennessee Valley region is facing a potentially transformative moment as the Tennessee Valley…
GOT FIVE ON IT: Economic Impacts and Observations of the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Program Five Years In
The Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Program was established in 2016 to return abandoned mine lands to productive use through economic and community development. The AMLER Program provides grants to…
Why West Virginia Needs the Black Lung Excise Tax
Rates of black lung disease have hit a 25-year high in Appalachian coal mining states and have reached epidemic levels in coal communities across the nation. On January 1st, 2022,…