Front Porch Blog
Updates from Appalachia
Abandoned coal relics cleaned up with settlement funds
The sites of two abandoned coal tipples in Southwest Virginia were recently reclaimed thanks to settlement funds resulting from a water pollution lawsuit.
Protect our communities. Stop the MVP Southgate fracked-gas pipeline
The developers behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline will host meetings on June 25-28 to get local feedback in some of the communities the 72-mile proposed MVP Southgate extension would traverse.
Duke Energy’s grid modernization pilot still shortchanges ratepayers
Appalachian Voices and our allies are raising concerns related to the process and substance behind Duke Energy’s grid modernization pilot.
Rising resistance to pipelines
Resistance to the fracked-gas Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines is growing, crossing all sorts of divides. Government agencies and officials supporting the projects are on the wrong side of history.
History, health at stake in Buckingham County
The omissions and errors in the permitting process for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline regarding an African-American community in central Virginia amounts to racism. A state panel on environmental justice calls for a new process.
