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April/May 2019
April/May 2019 View / Download PDF Appalachia’s incredible caves offer unusual adventures and provide shelter to rare, unique creatures. Below, read about some of our region’s underground inhabitants, and find your own cave to explore. We also cover advances in solar power in Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, along with articles on community broadband and…
Duke and Dominion Energy’s Contributions to NC Legislature
The two monopoly utilities contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to North Carolina legislative campaigns in 2018.
February/March 2019
View / Download PDF While several fracked-gas pipelines in our region face legal challenges, people in the path of these pipelines are contending with the problems posed by these industrial behemoths’ attempts to cut through their yards. Seven of these residents share their stories below. This issue also explores how pay-what-you-can restaurants are serving communities,…
December 2018 / January 2019
April/May 2018 View / Download PDF In Appalachia and across the country, people are reclaiming their power from electricity monopolies that weren’t serving their needs. In this issue, we share stories that exemplify the principle of energy democracy in action. In part one of this two-part series, we examined problems with monopoly utilities and looked…
An Eventful Fall at Appalachian Voices
We’ve filed a lawsuit against an unlawful coal mine in West Virginia, co-hosted a summit of landowners in the path of the MVP Southgate Pipeline, called out Virginia Gov. Northam for his egregious dismissal of two air board members during the board’s deliberations, and more.
MVP and ACP fracked-gas projects both dealt major blows — again
The Virginia State Water Control Board voted 4-3 today to reconsider the Clean Water Act section 401 certification that the board approved last December for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Six days after Attorney General Mark Herring filed an enforcement suit against MVP, LLC for violations of state water laws and terms of the 401 certification,…
Va. air board waits to decide on ACP compressor station
Today, Virginia’s State Air Pollution Control Board voted 6-0 to defer until December a decision on a permit requested by Dominion Energy to operate a 55,000 horsepower natural gas compressor station for its proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline in Buckingham County. According to statements made by Board Chair Richard Langford during the meeting, the information record…
Our air. Our lives.
Hundreds of Virginians voiced their concerns this summer about a massive fracked gas compressor station proposed in the heart of Virginia as part of the risky Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Some of them have everything at stake — their health, home and heritage as part of the historic African-American community of Union Hill.
October/November 2018
View / Download PDF In Appalachia, our energy options and prices are determined by where we live. Whether our power provider is an investor-owned corporation, an electric cooperative or a municipally owned utility, they determine our energy sources and electricity costs, and even affect the affordability of putting solar panels on our own roofs. These…
August/September 2018
August/Sept 2018 – Features View / Download PDF The 11 national forests in Central and Southern Appalachia offer us respite and recreation, and provide refuge for the natural world. Yet national forests are complex, and these public lands are often simultaneously home to significant logging projects and mineral extraction. The U.S. Forest Service is tasked…