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Posts Tagged ‘Environmental Protection Agency’

EPA moves to weaken long overdue coal ash protections

By Dan Radmacher | July 18, 2025 | 0

Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will delay deadlines to require utilities to inspect coal ash contamination and begin to clean up coal ash impoundments with a draft extension rule and companion proposal.

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Part II: How the Trump plan for the federal budget hurts Appalachia

By Chelsea Barnes | July 9, 2025 | 0

This is the second of two blogs highlighting some of the ways that the proposed budget would make Appalachians less safe and less financially secure, undercutting economic development and environmental remediation efforts.

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Nonprofits, Tribes and local governments sue Trump administration for terminating EPA grant programs

By Dan Radmacher | June 25, 2025 | 0

Today, a coalition of nonprofits, Tribes and local governments sued the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program despite a congressional directive to fund it.

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Appalachian Voices v. EPA: A letter from our executive director

By Tom Cormons | June 25, 2025 | 0
Downtown Pennington Gap, Virginia

Appalachian Voices joined our partners and attorneys in a class-action lawsuit against the EPA for unlawfully terminating its Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program. Read a letter from Executive Director Tom Cormons about why we’re taking this step.

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EPA decision to reverse health protections will harm Appalachians

By Abby Hassler | June 11, 2025 | 0
Power plant pollution

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce that it will be rolling back health protections related to emissions from power plants.

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EPA announces rollback of decades’ worth of regulations

By Chelsea Barnes | March 28, 2025 | 2

On March 12, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” a rollback of dozens of important environmental health protections that will put communities across the nation at risk and let polluters go wild.

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Connecting the future to the past through five special places

By Kara Dotten | December 3, 2024 | 1

Appalachian Voices is working with five towns in the seven coalfield communities to successfully model resiliency in the face of economic difficulties, climate disasters and other hurdles by helping them create shovel-ready projects in their regions.

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Revitalizing Pennington Gap: Clean energy and economic investment in Southwest Virginia

By Rance Garrison | November 13, 2024 | 0

As Central Appalachia adapts to a changing modern economy that is less dependent on traditional economic drivers like the coal industry and agriculture, Pennington Gap stands as an inspiring example of what a committed, collaborative approach to economic renewal can achieve.

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A step forward for clean water protections, but threats remain

By Chelsea Barnes | October 6, 2023 | 1
Drilling equipment can just barely be seen in acleared area behind a placid river reflecting clouds and trees.

In September, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new rule that restores certain protections for water under the Clean Water Act. The changes in the rule will give states and tribes more oversight over water protection within their boundaries.

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Hydrogen gas — what’s all the hype about?

By Emily Piontek | May 5, 2023 | 1

Hydrogen gas as an energy source in Central Appalachia is a real possibility, so we’re unpacking this technology and exploring its potential impact on the health of communities and ecosystems in our region.

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