Front Porch Blog
Updates from Appalachia
Years in the making, TVA’s long-term energy plan misses the mark
After years of delays and several drafts, TVA finalized a new long-term energy plan at its August board meeting. Both the process leading up to this plan and the final plan show that politics and industry interests have influenced the utility and its board more than the voices of household electric customers.
What we learned in three years of community air monitoring in Central Appalachia
A three-year community air monitoring program taught important lessons for future projects.
From conversation to construction: Building a community vision
The park is the focal point of our community-driven planning process, from the design of the stage to the planned uses of the new space.
Residents oppose Dominion Energy’s massive gas plant proposal to meet data center demand
The proposed Cumberland Energy Center would be capable of powering the equivalent of 750,000 homes, but the roughly 4,000 households in rural Cumberland County would have to live with the dirtier air, health impacts, noise and traffic it will cause.
A new map shows the funding need for abandoned mine cleanup across the U.S.
Three million people live near water polluted by acid mine drainage, open mine portals, underground mine fires, polluting mine waste, dilapidated infrastructure and a number of other abandoned mine features.
