White House Climate Advisor Sees A Path To A Clean Energy Transition Through...
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...
View ArticleSlip Sliding Away: Landslides Follow Flooding As Major Risk To Appalachian...
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,...
View ArticleNew Research: Reclamation of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells, Mine Sites Could...
In Central Appalachia an estimated 538,000 unplugged oil and gas wells and 853,393 acres of abandoned mine lands sit unreclaimed, often polluting the air and water, and presenting public safety...
View ArticleMine Workers’ Leader Wants To Save Last Coal Jobs As Biden Tackles Climate
United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said he’s been hearing the term “just transition” tossed around for more than 20 years as part of the long-running, nearly Sisyphean discussion...
View ArticleEnergy Secretary Pushes Regional Job Potential From Climate Action
On Thursday — Earth Day — President Joe Biden announced an ambitious goal to fight the climate crisis: The country will cut by half its global warming emissions by 2030. Such action will require a...
View ArticlePower Player: How Manchin Is Key to Biden’s Energy, Climate Goals
On Earth Day, President Joe Biden convened world leaders for a climate summit, where he laid out an ambitious goal for U.S. policy on climate change. “The United States sets out to cut our global...
View ArticleAppalachian Coal Is A Major Source Of Methane, A Potent Greenhouse Gas
Appalachian coal mines emit more than a million tons of methane a year, and overall the region is the largest U.S. source of the potent greenhouse gas, according to new research. The region was the...
View ArticleThe ‘Beef’ With Beef: Cattle, Climate Change, And Alternative Meat
Many people might think of Blake Munger as a cattle farmer as he walks through his pasture land in western Kentucky, but he sees things a little differently nowadays. “I don’t know which is more...
View ArticleBattered and flooded by increasingly severe weather, Kentucky and Tennessee...
McEWEN, Tenn.—Tammy Shaw and her granddaughter, Hope Collier, were trying to find an escape path when water started spilling under their doors. It was Aug. 21, a day Middle Tennessee residents will...
View ArticleA new kind of ‘mining’ has arrived in the Ohio Valley. What will crypto mean...
Open the door of Blockware Mining’s data center in Paducah, Kentucky, and you’re met by a wall of sound. More than 5,000 machines are whirring away as they solve complex math problems, while large...
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