A new blog for YES! Magazine asks, “How do we get over coal?” That’s the question many are asking in Appalachia, where coal’s contribution to the economy is wearing thin. Already, coal is less and less abundant and more and…
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Coal Industry Costs Virginians Millions of Dollars Every Year
New report suggests shifting money to diversify coalfield economies Contact: Rory McIlmoil, Downstream Strategies, 304-445-7200, mcilmoil@downstreamstrategies.com Cat McCue, Appalachian Voices, 434-293-6373, cat@appvoices.org Glen Besa, Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club, 804-225-9113 x 104, glen.besa@sierraclub.org Resources Full Report Executive Summary Blog…
No Longer Hidden in Plain Sight, Thanks to SoutheastCoalAsh.org!
For how large coal ash impoundments can be, they are sure hard to spot. For example, there are two large earthen dams full of coal ash just north of Charlotte near Mountain Island Lake. Can you spot them? (Answer: They’re…
New Interactive Web Tool Gives Details About Southeast’s Toxic Coal Ash
Project highlights ongoing problems four years after Kingston, Tenn., disaster Contacts: Sandra Diaz, Appalachian Voices, 828-262-1500 Ulla Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, 828-254-6776 x2 State Press Releases Kentucky North Carolina Tennessee Blog Post No Longer Hidden in Plain Sight,…
Political winds shifting for renewable energy in Virginia?
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Interior announced plans to sell leases for the development of wind energy 27 miles off of Virginia’s shores and another lease block off of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. If constructed, these would be…
TAGS: offshore wind Renewable Energy Renewable Portfolio Standards Virginia Wise Energy for Virginia
Singin’ the Catawba River Blues After Commission’s Decision On Coal Ash
By Hallie Carde Red, White and Water intern, Spring 2013 North Carolina, we have a problem. The waste from burning coal, known as coal ash, continues to threaten our state’s water supply. Seepage from coal ash impoundments is contaminating North…
They’re Here: Alien Species in Appalachia
By Matt Grimley Anything that costs $120 billion every year to control can’t be good. That’s just one estimate of the costs of invasive species in the United States, courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Research Station. In Appalachia, the everyday…
TAGS: American bullfrog Appalachian Fruit Research Station beech bark disease brown marmorated stink bug crayfish plague european starling gray squirrel Great Smoky Mountains National Park invasive species Japanese knotweed Kudzu kudzu bug multiflora rose pseudorabies tree-of-heaven wild boars
Finding a Common Language
By Matt Grimley Lucy Hoffman hears her cell phone buzzing at all hours. At Avery Amigos, a nonprofit dedicated to bridging the gap for the Latino community in northwest North Carolina, she assists Hispanic women and their families with a…
Showing Off Your Mussels: Powell River Restocks Declining Populations and other shorts
This fall, more than 7,000 juvenile mussels were released into the Powell River, the largest number of endangered mussels planted in the history of the river’s restoration project. The release was coordinated through a partnership between Virginia Tech, Lincoln Memorial…
TAGS: Chattanooga Daniel Boone National Forest fracking Mussels Powell River Sand Lick Fork area Tennessee
A Clean(er) World
By Molly Moore No country is an energy island. In the face of a European Union sanction that bans steel imports, Iran is using roundabout trading methods to secure metallurgical coal, used in steel manufacturing, from Ukraine. A state-backed firm…
TAGS: Center for American Progress Coal coal electricity electricity energy Energy Efficiency energy future Energy Savings green energy future International Energy Agency Renewable Energy
