Energy & Environment Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Jan 14

Energy & Environment

Kentucky mental health professionals dealing with case overload after multiple disasters

Ohio Valley ReSource · 011822OVR – F Corina Hall remembers looking out her window and watching her car be submerged by water shortly before 4 a.m. on March 1, 2021. Minutes later, water soaked her feet in her bathroom. Hall said that shocked her. She didn’t expect the water to keep rising, and she didn’t […]

By Corinne Boyer and Liam Niemeyer

Jan 14

Energy & Environment

Kentucky mental health professionals dealing with case overload after multiple disasters

By Corinne Boyer and Liam Niemeyer

Jan 10

Energy & Environment

Heavy Rainfall, Snow Hit Ohio Valley Communities Hard Over the First Week of the Year

Over the holidays, many eastern Kentuckians had gathered together in hopes of spending quality time with their families and taking a moment away from the stresses of everyday life. But between surging COVID-19 cases and recurring natural disasters, this New Year, it felt hard to catch a break. Rounds of flooding and snowfall in the […]

By Katie Myers

Jan 10

Energy & Environment

Heavy Rainfall, Snow Hit Ohio Valley Communities Hard Over the First Week of the Year

Katie Myers

Jan 9

Energy & Environment

In New River Gorge National Park, Fire Is Part of A Healthy Forest

It’s an unseasonably mild day in December, and from a parking area on the edge of the New River Gorge, you couldn’t tell there had been a wildfire near here just days earlier. As we make our way down a steeply sloped trail, we encounter some young rock climbers who seem hardly bothered by what […]

By Curtis Tate

Jan 9

Energy & Environment

In New River Gorge National Park, Fire Is Part of A Healthy Forest

Curtis Tate

Dec 22

Energy & Environment

Paying for Black Lung: Renewal Deadline Looms for Overextended Federal Trust Fund

In 1983, two southwest Virginia coal miners told an Appalshop filmmaker they were worried about a slate of budget cuts to social services by then-president Ronald Reagan. The reason? They had developed black lung – a severe, progressive lung disease that comes from inhaling dust while working in coal mines. In the film, the two […]

By Katie Myers

Dec 22

Energy & Environment

Paying for Black Lung: Renewal Deadline Looms for Overextended Federal Trust Fund

Katie Myers

Dec 22

Energy & Environment

In the Southwest and Appalachia, Indigenous Organizers Want a New Economy for Their Coalfield Communities

Carol Davis has noticed the West drying up. Where she lives, in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation, years of drought have left former oases dusty and dry. Though the drought has some roots in wider climate issues, Carol says much of the groundwater in her area has dried […]

By Katie Myers

Dec 22

Energy & Environment

In the Southwest and Appalachia, Indigenous Organizers Want a New Economy for Their Coalfield Communities

Katie Myers

Dec 7

Energy & Environment

Mine Reclamation, Clean Water and Broadband: What the Infrastructure Law Brings to Appalachia

The bipartisan infrastructure bill that became law last month has billions of dollars in it for roads, bridges, airports and transit systems in the Ohio Valley. The law also addresses some of the region’s other pressing needs. The $1 trillion infrastructure law has the potential to deliver big improvements to Appalachia. It will help reclaim […]

By Curtis Tate

Dec 7

Energy & Environment

Mine Reclamation, Clean Water and Broadband: What the Infrastructure Law Brings to Appalachia

Curtis Tate

Nov 10

Energy & Environment

Kentucky Court Orders Justice to Pay Penalty Over Mine Reclamation

A Kentucky court has found coal companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in default of a 2019 mine reclamation agreement. A judge in Frankfort on Tuesday ordered Justice to pay a nearly $3 million penalty, plus interest, over mine reclamation work at three sites in eastern Kentucky that was not completed before deadline. […]

By Curtis Tate

Nov 10

Energy & Environment

Kentucky Court Orders Justice to Pay Penalty Over Mine Reclamation

Curtis Tate

Nov 5

Energy & Environment

Justice-Owned Mines to Reopen, in the Midst of Kentucky Reclamation Lawsuit

Jay Justice, son of Jim Justice, governor of West Virginia, with whom he owns several mining companies, just announced the re-opening of four mines in Kentucky. The reopening announcement came with a promise of 150 new jobs, but an active lawsuit and a new report on overdue reclamation liabilities at Justice-owned mines suggest that […]

By Katie Myers

Nov 5

Energy & Environment

Justice-Owned Mines to Reopen, in the Midst of Kentucky Reclamation Lawsuit

Katie Myers

Nov 3

Energy & Environment

Updated tap water database lets you search for contaminants in your drinking water

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released updates to its Tap Water Database on Wednesday. The environmental health nonprofit’s database makes public drinking water systems searchable by zip code. It also shows legal and illegal levels of contaminants and the health risks associated with them. But many chemicals found in drinking water are not regulated by […]

By Corinne Boyer

Nov 3

Energy & Environment

Updated tap water database lets you search for contaminants in your drinking water

Corinne Boyer

Oct 15

Energy & Environment

In Elk, A Kentucky Professor Sees An Opportunity To Help Revitalize Appalachia

Howard Whiteman is inching along in his black Toyota Prius, craning his neck to see what’s beyond the rolling grasslands into the nearby woods. He wishes he brought binoculars. He’s slowly making his way around an enclosed 700-acre Elk and Bison Prairie in Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, the only public land in […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Oct 15

Energy & Environment

In Elk, A Kentucky Professor Sees An Opportunity To Help Revitalize Appalachia

Liam Niemeyer