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Appalachian Voices’ Featured on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call
Check out this EXCELLENT in-depth interview on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call featuring our very own Mike McCoy and Tom Cormans. Mike and Tom answer caller’s questions and talk about the growing campaign to stop the proposed Wise County Power Plant, which Dominion admits will NOT use carbon capture. Check it out! Standard Podcast [61:01m]:…
Read MorePress Release: March 7, 2008
MEDIA RELEASE – March 7,2008 www.WiseEnergyForVirginia.org Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Kathy Selvage (276) 565-1083 Appalachian Voices Tom Cormons (434) 293-6373 Sierra Club, Virginia Chapter Glen Besa (804) 225-9113 Chesapeake Climate Action Network Josh Tulkin (240) 396-2152 Southern Environmental Law Center Cale Jaffe (434) 977-4090 Dominion concedes its planned coal-fired power plant in Wise County won’t…
Read MoreExperienced Volunteers wanted for Video Documentary Project
We need your help! Appalachian Voices is preparing to launch an online video outreach project called “America’s Most Endangered Mountains”. This project will showcase 10 mountains and surrounding communities that are slated for mountaintop removal operations. Each video will answer “Why is Appalachia worth saving?” and involve viewers in the campaign by: Showcasing community assets…
Read MoreBIG WIN for Dogwood Alliance and Southern Forests
Congratulations to our friends at the Dogwood Alliance. Read more about their excellent campaign with Abitibi-BoWater here. (.pdf) A Leap Forward –Environmental Organizations Help Paper Company Become Better Steward of Southern Forests Contact: Scot Quaranda, Dogwood Alliance, 828.251.2525 x18 Asheville, NC – On February 29, 2008, Dogwood Alliance released a report, “Southern Forests & Bowater,…
Read MorePress Release: March 3, 2008
Please visit iLoveMountains.org at hhttp://www.ilovemountains.org/news/395 for this press realease.
Read MoreJeff Biggers Takes “Clean Coal” to the Cleaners
An important editorial this Sunday in the Washington Post, by celebrated author Jeff Biggers, who is emerging as one of our leading national voices about the injustices of mountaintop removal. Clean Coal? Don’t Try to Shovel that. Every time I hear our political leaders talk about “clean coal,” I think about Burl, an irascible old…
Read MoreMuseum of Appalachia – The Ultimate Field Trip
John Rice Irwin tarried among his exhibits for an hour. Maybe more. And that was still not enough to show it off. It was hardly more than a breeze-through of the farm tools, musical instruments, antique furniture and odd relics of yesteryear at the Museum of Appalachia. Irwin smiled and said, “You could spend a…
Read MoreLiving History Museum Honors the Past, for the Future
By Keith Deel By the sweat of their brows and the strength of their backs, settlers built a life in Appalachia. Few reminders of their struggles remain, but one is the Matthews Living History Museum, located outside of Galax, VA. It gives a glimpse into the lives of the citizens of Grayson County from 1880…
Read MoreVirginia religious leaders oppose Dominion coal plant
Labeling coal fired electric power “immoral and destructive,” sixty religious leaders called on Virginia governor Tim Kaine to drop any support for a proposed power plant in Wise County. The religious leaders included Jewish, Protestant and Catholic leaders from all around Virginia. Among them were Bishop Charlene Kammerer of the Virginia Conference of the United…
Read MoreMountain justice students protest coal power plant
Protests against coal fired power plants continue around the region. In early March, students from around the country attending Mountain Justice Spring Break marched to the regional offices of the Virginia state environmental agency in Abingdon, VA to oppose the coal plant proposed for St. Paul, VA by Dominion. They were greeted with supportive horn…
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