May 24 Energy & Environment Beshear Announces Water, Flood Control Funding For Eastern Kentucky Eastern Kentucky’s water problems are well documented, but for Pike County, some help may be on the way. The county’s two Appalachian Regional Commission applications for water system improvements and flood prevention infrastructure have officially been recommended for federal funding by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who announced his support for the projects during a tour […] By Katie Myers May 24 Energy & Environment Beshear Announces Water, Flood Control Funding For Eastern Kentucky Katie Myers
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
Mar 29 Energy & Environment Eastern Kentucky Communities Barraged By Second Round of Flooding Heavy rains have again caused major flooding in parts of eastern Kentucky, a region that has suffered three floods in just a little over a year. The high waters this weekend followed a round of severe flooding at the first of March. For some communities, including the city of Middlesboro in Bell County and the […] By Katie Myers Mar 29 Energy & Environment Eastern Kentucky Communities Barraged By Second Round of Flooding Katie Myers
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
Mar 1 Energy & Environment Heavy Rains Bring Flooding To Parts Of Kentucky, West Virginia Dozens of counties in Kentucky and West Virginia are cleaning up flood damage from heavy rains over the weekend. In Kentucky, a total of 34 counties and cities have declared states of emergency, including Breathitt, Calloway, Casey, Elliott, Estill, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Owsley, Perry and Pike counties and the cities of Paintsville and Salyersville. Of […] By Katie Myers Mar 1 Energy & Environment Heavy Rains Bring Flooding To Parts Of Kentucky, West Virginia Katie Myers
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
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
Jan 27 Energy & Environment After Deadly Floods, West Virginia Created A Resiliency Office. It’s Barely Functioning. The rain came hard and fast early on the morning of June 23, 2016. By 2 p.m., water was knee deep in Bill Bell’s appliance store on Main Street in Rainelle, a small town on the western edge of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Bell began elevating the washing machines and dishwashers, thinking that would be […] By Brittany Patterson Jan 27 Energy & Environment After Deadly Floods, West Virginia Created A Resiliency Office. It’s Barely Functioning. Brittany Patterson
Dec 19 Infrastructure Rising Waters: Aging Levees, Climate Change And The Challenge To Hold Back The Ohio River When 78-year-old Jim Casto looks at the towering floodwalls that line downtown Huntington, West Virginia, he sees a dark history of generations past. The longtime journalist and local historian is short in stature, yet tall in neighborhood tales. On Casto’s hand shines a solid gold ring, signifying his more than 40 years of reporting at […] By Liam Niemeyer Dec 19 Infrastructure Rising Waters: Aging Levees, Climate Change And The Challenge To Hold Back The Ohio River Liam Niemeyer
Oct 28 Energy & Environment Disastrous Disconnect: Coal, Climate And Catastrophe In Kentucky This story is part of a series about the insufficient protections for vulnerable people as natural disasters worsen in a warming climate. The Center for Public Integrity and four partners – the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, High Country News, Ohio Valley ReSource and StateImpact Oklahoma – are contributing stories. REGINA, Ky. — Todd Bentley stepped onto his […] By Rachel Leven and Zach Goldstein Oct 28 Energy & Environment Disastrous Disconnect: Coal, Climate And Catastrophe In Kentucky Rachel Leven and Zach Goldstein