Kids in the Creek: Connecting Youth to Their Watersheds

By Molly Moore | December 20, 2011 |

Alan Felker, eighth grade science teacher at Hardin Park Middle School in Boone, N.C., believes it’s important to expose kids to the environment around them. In North Carolina, eighth grade students are required to study state river basins and water quality issues. Felker took this opportunity to expose his students to our local and regional…

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Nally & Hamilton Case Continues in State Court

By Eric Chance | December 9, 2011 |

Yesterday Appalachian Voices along with our partners Kentucky Riverkeeper, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, and Waterkeeper Alliance challenged the recent settlement between Nally & Hamilton and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet in state court. Click here to see the press release with more information on this newest development. Click here to see the how the…

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Renewed Call to Revoke Massey Energy’s Corporate Charter

By Appalachian Voices | December 7, 2011 |

PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS RENEW CALL TO REVOKE MASSEY ENERGY’S CORPORATE CHARTER JOINT STATEMENT OF FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE, APPALACHIAN VOICES, AND THE RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK Dec. 7, 2011 Yesterday, Alpha Natural Resources, the parent company of the Massey Energy coal company, agreed to pay $209 million in criminal penalties, civil penalties, and compensation to the…

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Lisa Jackson comes to Durham, N.C.

By Molly Moore | December 5, 2011 |

UPDATED: View live footage of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s speech and Q-and-A at Duke University. ——————————— Attention, Raleigh/Durham area residents! EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will be speaking at Duke University on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Come out and tell your friends! If you’re interested in asking questions at the event and would like to speak with…

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Renewable Energy Growing, but Not Fast Enough

By Jeff Deal | December 2, 2011 |

Check out this EXCELLENT post at Grist HERE concerning the rapid, but still too slow growth of renewable energy development in the US. The news is worse for we Folks here in the Southeast. From the post: The state maps showing the concentration of various renewables (too many to show here) also implicitly illuminate the…

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Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet cuts deal with Nally and Hamilton for Water Pollution Violations

By Eric Chance | November 23, 2011 |

Last week the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet entered a settlement with Nally and Hamilton Enterprises to resolve tens of thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act. The pending agreed order, originally submitted in September, was signed by the Cabinet Secretary Len Peters, now making it official. Nally and Hamilton is one of the…

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Happy Birthday, Clean Water Act!!

By Sandra Diaz | November 21, 2011 |

We recently took the Red, White and Water campaign to the Festival Latino in Wilmington, NC. Festival goers signed photo postcards to their member of Congress Representative Mike McIntyre asking him to stand up for our clean water protections. Hispanic communities suffer disproportionately from the impacts of coal pollution. 32 coal-fired power plants across the…

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Isle of Wight County in Va Officially Opposes Coal Plant

By Appalachian Voices | November 21, 2011 |

Isle of Wight County, located in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, adopted an official resolution of opposition to what would be the largest coal-fired power plant in Virginia, if permitted. Click here for the Wise Energy Press release. Isle of Wight County is downwind of and direct neighbors to the would be host Surry…

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