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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Explosives and heavy equipment: the perfect combination for mine owners to extract coal from a pristine Appalachian landscape. Too bad this process, known as mountaintop removal mining, is terrible if you live near the mined mountain, or in a watershed downstream, or on a planet faced with the imminent threat of ever-increasing temperatures brought about by greenhouse-gas emissions. [
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
If you haven’t heard, Energy Alabama has released an updated
scorecard evaluating the performance of Alabama’s rural electric cooperatives in areas such as democratic governance, member services, and access to clean energy, to name a few. [
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Thursday, September 29th, 2022 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Mara Eve Robbins, a stalwart activist in the movement against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, reflects on community and hope in this special guest blog. [
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Congress can clean up orange water by removing red tape. Join the efforts of community leaders across the country and tell Congress to let states use their infrastructure funding for acid mine drainage treatment! [
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Monday, February 21st, 2022 | Posted by Guest Contributor | 1 Comment
A lot of irreparable harm can be inflicted during a fossil fuel pipeline fight. Just because a pipeline is eventually canceled, doesn’t stop it from bulldozing through precious land and water and exhausting community members to the bone as they fight for their lives. [
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Monday, November 1st, 2021 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Amanda Pitzer with Friends of the Cheat discusses the specific impacts of acid mine drainage on the Cheat River, analyzes abandoned mine lands funding pending before Congress and charts a path for future success in collaboration with state and federal decision-makers. [
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Joe Pizarchik, former head of OSMRE and one of the nation’s foremost experts on complex and sprawling abandoned mine lands issues, provides an essential overview of how acid mine drainage fits into pending legislative proposals and where we should look next. [
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2021 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
In this conversation, Marissa Lautzenheiser of Rural Action lays out the basics of the acid mine drainage challenge, discusses the unique funding needs for AMD clean-up, and talks about some of the innovative work Rural Action is doing to tackle this problem. [
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
The Senate just passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes the LARGEST-EVER investment in abandoned mine land clean-up. Now we need the House to pass this bill with a few small changes that will make a big difference for local communities. [
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Monday, June 21st, 2021 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
In the USA Today, Indigenous leader Crystal Cavalier and climate scientist Michael Mann team up for this op-ed calling out the Mountain Valley Pipeline as a nail in America's climate coffin and environmental injustice. [
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Guest blogger Rebecca Shelton explains why politicians need to be focusing on investing more in coal communities, not less. Congress needs to pass Rep. Cartwright's abandoned mine lands bills. Rep. Cheney's bill, which would shortchange coal communities by slicing the fee, is unacceptable. [
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Friday, February 26th, 2021 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Although the Kentucky Public Service Commission denied the utility's original request for a 25 percent rate increase, the body approved a rate hike of 12.5 percent for residential customers. [
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