Front Porch Blog
Updates from Appalachia
West Virginia issues new round of violations against South Fork Coal Company
Bankrupt company’s idled mines continue to cause problems…
Coal hauling through the Monongahela National Forest has ceased… for now.
Our collective efforts to defend the Monongahela National Forest and the Cherry River from the abuses of South Fork Coal Company are having an impact.
Part one: The $3 billion health costs of Dominion Energy’s proposed Chesterfield gas power plant
This is the first of two blogs looking at how Dominion Energy’s plans for a new methane gas power plant in Chesterfield would affect the local community and everyone in Virginia who gets power from the state’s biggest power company. We’ll dive into the latter in part two!
‘Take your pipe and shove it’: How one Tennessee community fought back a major fossil fuel project — and isn’t done yet
Residents of Cheatham County, Tennessee, united to push back against the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plan for a methane gas power plant on 286 acres of rolling farmland.
