Front Porch Blog
Updates from Appalachia
Trump administration cutting vital health and safety services for miners
Coal miners, families and advocates were still trying to figure out what the termination of leases for dozens of Mine Safety and Health Administration offices by Elon Musk’s DOGE meant for the work of mine safety inspectors when even worse news came.
Community improvement projects proceed in Pound as funding remains uncertain
Community projects in the town of Pound, Virginia are moving forward, but the federal funding as the federal funding that has helped to make them possible faces an uncertain future.
EPA announces rollback of decades’ worth of regulations
On March 12, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” a rollback of dozens of important environmental health protections that will put communities across the nation at risk and let polluters go wild.
Virginia’s 2025 General Assembly session wraps up
Matt Allenbaugh shares a few highlights from the Virginia General Assembly. We’ll share more updates on the bills we’ve worked on after the governor’s veto session wraps up on April 2 and we know which bills are becoming law!
Residents fight for Kentucky water
SB 89 would strip protections for Kentucky’s groundwater, headwater ephemeral streams and many wetlands, increasing pollution risks, raising water treatment costs and exacerbating flood risks for communities across the commonwealth.
