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Tell Congress We Can’t Afford The Status Quo on Coal Ash!
This Friday, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2273, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, a bill that puts the profits of coal ash polluters above public health. H.R. 2273 subverts public support of the EPA’s proposed federal coal ash rules by leaving coal ash pollution in the hands of states with…
Read MoreEco-friendly Living in Outdoor Spaces
By David Pferdekamper and Brian Sewell Considering the changing colors and the crisp air, autumn is as good a time as any to spend outdoors. If you don’t have an “outdoor living space” yet, it may be time to create that welcoming, comfortable and eco-friendly addition to your home. Humans have long incorporated garden spaces,…
Read MoreWalter Jones One of Two Republicans To Vote Against Delay of Mercury Standards for Cement Plants-
As part of the wave of anti-public health bills that are oozing from what it is supposed to be the People’s House (not the Polluter’s House), H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act passed 262 to 161. The vote fell largely on party lines, with 25 Democrats voting for the bill, and two Republicans…
Read MoreSpeaking Truth to Power: Appalachian Women Travel to Delaware To Hold Massey Energy Accountable
This summer, Appalachian Voices joined Free Speech for People and Rainforest Action Network to petition Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden to repeal Massey Energy’s corporate charter due to their gross disregard for Appalachian communities. Massey Energy, like many corporations, is legally chartered in Delaware. And though Alpha Resources bought Massey Energy earlier this year, Massey…
Read MoreUnited for America’s Arctic
Appalachian Voices is proud to join 50 co-signers on a statement issued by United for America’s Arctic. We recognize the Arctic’s Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as critical habitat for polar bears and marine mammals such as endangered bowhead whales, walrus and seals. Similar to the mountains and streams of Appalachia, the Arctic’s national treasures are…
Read MoreAppalachian Voices, Prairie Rivers Network, and Environmental Integrity Project team up in IL
By Kate Finneran Appalachian Voices National Field Coordinator, 2011-12 An overwhelming number of Illinois Representatives in Congress are voting to strip US residents of the only clean water protection they have. Most have voted in support of the Dirty Water Bill (H.R. 2018), a bill that would gut the Clean Water Act by giving states,…
Read MoreFlaming wells, poisoned water show abuses of coal.
I have just returned from another epic journey into the dark side of coal mining. If you, me or anyone else in America poisoned a neighbor’s drinking water we would be castigated and made a pariah at the very least and possibly jailed for attempted murder at the worst. But if you are a coal…
Read MoreSlurry Lawsuit Comes to an End
Through underground injections and an alleged faulty slurry pond, Mingo County, West Virginia’s water has been inundated with a “toxic soup” of heavy metals cumulatively amounting to a volume larger than the BP Oil spill. Rawl Sales and Processing Co., a subsidiary of Massey Energy, began dumping coal slurry—the substance produced from washing coal—into a…
Read MoreMassey Energy Gets to Continue Business-As-Usual While Tim DeChristopher Gets Two Years in Prison
Please join Appalachian Voices, Free Speech for People and Rainforest Action Network in asking that Massey Energy’s corporate charter be revoked True community exists when neighbors respect each other. Good neighbors are mindful of the impacts that their actions have on the whole. When a powerful neighbor, like a corporation, does not respect their neighbors,…
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