Apr 9 Energy & Environment Slip Sliding Away: Landslides Follow Flooding As Major Risk To Appalachian Communities Elaine Tanner lives with her life partner, Jimmy Hall, at the head of Mill Creek in Letcher County, Kentucky. Jimmy is a sixth-generation Letcher Countian, and the land is his family land. Together, they like to roll around on their property on their ATV. But lately, Tanner’s spent more time searching for signs of damage […] By Katie Myers Apr 9 Energy & Environment Slip Sliding Away: Landslides Follow Flooding As Major Risk To Appalachian Communities Katie Myers
Apr 5 Energy & Environment White House Climate Advisor Sees A Path To A Clean Energy Transition Through Coal Country For decades now, rhetoric around action on climate change has been about things like saving the planet, or saving polar bears. Just think: How many times have you seen an image of ice crashing into the sea from a melting glacier, or a sad-eyed seal atop a floe, as part of a climate change message? […] By Jeff Young Apr 5 Energy & Environment White House Climate Advisor Sees A Path To A Clean Energy Transition Through Coal Country Jeff Young
Mar 17 Energy & Environment Slow Recovery: Repeated Floods And Storms Strain East Kentucky’s Aging Infrastructure Katrina Bostrin had never seen the lake come up that quickly before. She’d lived in Jackson, the county seat of Breathitt County, Kentucky, on and off since she was a child. It had come up to the garage before, but never inside her home. As she spoke, a volunteer crew from a local church ripped […] By Katie Myers and Corinne Boyer Mar 17 Energy & Environment Slow Recovery: Repeated Floods And Storms Strain East Kentucky’s Aging Infrastructure Katie Myers and Corinne Boyer
Feb 25 Energy & Environment Climate Change Increases Flooding Risk For Some 230,000 Ohio Valley Homes A new analysis of flooding risk that accounts for the effects of climate change finds many more homes in Appalachian communities in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia are at risk of flooding than the federal government’s emergency managers have indicated. In 12 Appalachian counties in the region, at least half of all residences are at […] By Suhail Bhat and Jeff Young Feb 25 Energy & Environment Climate Change Increases Flooding Risk For Some 230,000 Ohio Valley Homes Suhail Bhat and Jeff Young
Feb 19 Agriculture Here Comes The Sun: Solar Moves In, And A Farm Community Wonders About Its Future The golden hue of the sunset shines across the sky and through the window as a woman drives down Van Meter Road in central Kentucky’s Clark County, passing by green rolling hills and hay bales. In her social media video from early September, Adreanna Wills points out white signs in yards along the way, displaying […] By Liam Niemeyer Feb 19 Agriculture Here Comes The Sun: Solar Moves In, And A Farm Community Wonders About Its Future Liam Niemeyer
Oct 21 Economy Report Shows Ohio Jobs Potential In Coronavirus Recovery And Climate Change Action A new report from an economic research group says Ohio could gain hundreds of thousands of jobs through investment in clean energy and other efforts to address climate change. The ReImagine Appalachia Coalition, a progressive policy group, asked economists to assess its blueprint for the region and what it could mean for employment opportunities in […] By Alana Watson Oct 21 Economy Report Shows Ohio Jobs Potential In Coronavirus Recovery And Climate Change Action Alana Watson
Oct 13 Energy & Environment Ohio Valley Mayors Aim For A Green Recovery Amid Coronavirus And Climate Change When newly elected President Donald Trump announced in 2017 that he would pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, he said, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” The goal of the landmark Paris Agreement, which was signed in 2015 by 189 parties, is to limit […] By Sydney Boles Oct 13 Energy & Environment Ohio Valley Mayors Aim For A Green Recovery Amid Coronavirus And Climate Change Sydney Boles
Aug 28 Democracy & Civic Life “False Hope” or Four More Years? Ohio Valley Stakeholders Reflect On Trump Energy Policy In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump was all-in on the fossil fuel industry. In a 2016 rally in Charleston, West Virginia, the candidate proudly accepted an endorsement from that state’s coal association, donning a hardhat while he mimed digging coal. To thundering applause, he promised to bring back coal jobs to the struggling Appalachian coalfields. Four […] By Sydney Boles Aug 28 Democracy & Civic Life “False Hope” or Four More Years? Ohio Valley Stakeholders Reflect On Trump Energy Policy Sydney Boles
Aug 21 Democracy & Civic Life “The Proof Is In The Pudding.” Coal Country Responds To Democrats’ Clean Energy Transition Democrats made their pitch to the American people during a largely virtual Democratic National Convention and addressing climate change emerged as a central tenet of the party’s plan. The party platform spells out a major investment in green energy jobs and infrastructure in order for America to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emission no later than […] By Brittany Patterson Aug 21 Democracy & Civic Life “The Proof Is In The Pudding.” Coal Country Responds To Democrats’ Clean Energy Transition Brittany Patterson
Jul 21 Energy & Environment Plan To ‘Reimagine Appalachia’ Touts Jobs, Justice and Sustainability For The Ohio Valley A coalition of progressive policy and environmental groups has released a “blueprint” that provides a framework for how Ohio Valley communities could reap the benefits of federal action to address climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan, titled “Reimagine Appalachia” envisions a future economy for the traditionally extraction-based economies of Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia […] By Brittany Patterson Jul 21 Energy & Environment Plan To ‘Reimagine Appalachia’ Touts Jobs, Justice and Sustainability For The Ohio Valley Brittany Patterson