Front Porch Blog
Updates from Appalachia
The Trump-Vance administration is pressing the gas pedal on fossil fuels and throwing up roadblocks for renewables. Congress should not enable it.
Given the Trump-Vance administration’s focus on fossil fuels, it’s clear that the projects expedited by changing the permitting process are virtually guaranteed to be for dirty energy.
The grave new threat facing communities
The Trump-Vance administration has used the Defense Production Act to prop up fossil fuel industries, including issuing hundreds of millions of dollars in DPA grants to keep aging coal plants operating and fund new coal-fired power plants.
Abingdon’s ElderSpirit community celebrates going solar
It was a bright week for clean energy earlier this month in Abingdon, Virginia, as residents of the ElderSpirit community gathered together with solar professionals and local leaders to celebrate the official ribbon-cutting of the community’s new solar arrays.
Virginia rejoins RGGI
On July 1, as a heat wave baked the commonwealth, Virginia rejoined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, more commonly known as RGGI.
Coal ash: The next-door neighbor no one is talking about
There are millions and millions of tons of coal ash sitting in unlined ponds and pits right next to our waterways. And right now, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation are holding public hearings to gather community input on the future of that waste.
