Cross posted from the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
The struggles of folks in West Virginia is not only getting national air time, it is finally front and center - the lead story of last Sunday’s New York Times, to be exact. The article details the Massey family from Prenter, W.Va., and their life with toxic [...]

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This was brought to my attention by a Surry County resident.
People who are for the proposed coal plant in Surry County have resorted to posting giant signs (four by eight feet) around the County which is obnoxious, and at least in the town of Surry, we have found out recently, its even illegal to post [...]

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Cross posted from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network Blog
Today the Virginia Air Board had its quarterly meeting and looking at the agenda one thing is crystal clear: Coal is impacting air quality all over the Commonwealth.
As I write this from the meeting room, and the Air Board is hearing reports on problems associated with coal-fired [...]

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This Time in South Carolina
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Cross posted from the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
Today rate-payers and oxygen users can breathe a little easier, as the Santee Cooper company nixed its plans to build another coal plant in the state.
A committee of the state-owned utility voted this morning to suspend an effort to secure permits [...]

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Another one bites the dust, this one in South Carolina - proposed by the Santee Cooper Electric Cooperative
Read the first article to hit the press here.
“Committee members and Santee Cooper staff said the down economy, looming federal regulation of carbon and a potential agreement with another power company made it possible to forgo building the [...]

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Cross posted by JW from the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog

Having had their astroturfing forgery exposed, this week coal industry front group ACCCE is taking an uber-REAL super-grassrootsy approach to showing us their grassrootability, via Twitter. And this time, rather than making stuff up about random minority groups, womens’ organizations, or seniors, they’re saying that [...]

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Cross posted from Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
Congressman Tom Perriello (VA-05) was just on Rachel Maddow talking about Bonner/ACCCE’s fraudulent attempts to get him to vote against climate legislation. The fossil fuel industry has completely destroyed their fragile credibility, and things are heating up for ACCCE and their corporate lobbying partners with increasing calls for [...]

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cross-posted from the CCAN Blog
Virginians are no stranger to coal. A state that currently generates 42% of its electricity from the old-school fossil fuel, we are used to living in a political culture that accepts – and endorses – the adherence to a fuel as old as the dinosaurs, and equally archaic. Major players in [...]

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Cross posted from Appalachian Voices’ Front Porch Blog
Polluting Industries Caught Forging Support
When you are a small non-profit working to reform billion dollar industries, you can take some solace when the other side is damaging their own case far more seriously than regular citizens ever could. The last few days have been a highlight reel of [...]

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Article from Tamara Dietrich at the Daily Press. Read the Whole Article Here: http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_tamara_0724jul24,0,7027240.column
Notably missing from the Army Corps scope of review is mountaintop removal and global warming. While I have respect for their review I believe they made a mistake when they chose to leave out leveling of the oldest mountains in the world [...]

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Cross posted at the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
When Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) decided that the small town of Dendron, Virginia, would be the future site of a 1500 megawatt, behemoth of a coal-fired power plant, they probably did not imagine that they would face a tremendous obstacle in the citizens of Dendron. A [...]

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Thanks in part to your efforts, Big Coal suffered a setback in Virginia this week!
Members of the Dendron Town Council, backed by local supporters cooling themselves with hand-held fans reading “No Coal Plant,” voted to decide for themselves if a coal plant will be built in their town. The vote means this important decision will [...]

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Cross-posted from the CCAN Blog.
Dendron, Virginia, has more than its share of challenges. The community of around 300, located in the southern corner of Surry County, struggles with an outdated municipal water system, crumbling sidewalks and no major businesses within the town.
Prior to the Great Depression, Dendron had been a company town of more than [...]

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cross-posted from the CCAN blog
Yesterday, the EPA performed a turn-around on its protection of the locations of 44 “high risk” coal ash impoundment sites, signaling a desire to make the regulatory body more transparent. Formerly protected under the auspices of national security, the ash impoundments, located in Ohio, Arizona, and throughout the southeast, have [...]

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Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia, a close ally to President Obama and current head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), came out with this statement in favor of the Administration’s proposal regarding mountaintop removal removal yesterday.
“I applaud the new guidelines announced by the administration which will impose tighter restrictions on mountaintop mining.
“In Virginia, we’ve always [...]

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