Appalachian Voices
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A leading force in Appalachia’s shift from fossil fuels to clean energy, healthy communities and 21st-century local economies
Boone, NC
Joined August 2009
Appalachian Voices is now on Bluesky! If you’re on the platform, follow us! 📍Find us: @appvoices.org #Bluesky #EnvironmentalAdvocacy
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Over the past few years, new + boosted federal programs have been providing communities with opportunities to clean up pollution + create new clean energy jobs. Send a letter to your legislators to remind them not to break their promises to rural America!
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@acc_cdfi ICYMI: In a recent article in The Appalachian Voice, we spoke with small business owners hit by Hurricane Helene. Read their stories:
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#ICMYI: Help save the Eastern hellbender! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comments for its proposal to list the giant salamander as an endangered species. The public comment period will end on Feb. 11!
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Appalachian Voices submitted a letter signed by nearly 4,000 individuals urging the newly appointed Environmental Protection Agency administrator to develop new protections from coal dust that blows off of trains, contaminating waterways and posing serious public health risks.
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We're taking the Polar Plunge in support of the work of Appalachian Voices and @CCAN, and you can help us keep winter cold by making a donation to help support climate stability and keep winter cold! ❄️ ☃️
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BREAKING: Mountain Valley Pipeline submitted a new amendment to @FERC for the methane gas pipeline “Southgate.” #StopMVP #NoPipelines
@7Directionsof @SierraClub @POWHR_Coalition @CCAN
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@RachelBoydMOJO @SpecNews1CLT “Most of the farmers in this area are 60 plus,” Sierra Bryant, the director of operations at TRACTOR Food & Farms, said. “So it's a lot easier to cash out that early retirement than it is for them to just stand overwhelmed at their farm trying to figure out where to begin.”
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A group of utilities sent a letter to the newly confirmed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin asking the agency to roll back #CoalAsh regulations and greenhouse gas limits on coal- and gas-fired power plants. Read our statement:
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The Central Appalachian Network is hosting a series of virtual public Open Houses. Register to join and learn more about CAN and their working groups that include topics such as clean energy, healthy food access, and more.
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#DukeEnergy and nine other utilities are asking the EPA to weaken #CoalAsh cleanup and air pollution rules.
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What do a rural animal shelter in Kentucky, the Inflation Reduction Act, and several organizations, including the @mtassociationky, @nature_org and the Appalachian Solar Finance Fund, have in common? The purr-fect solution to finance a solar project! 😻☀️
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Last fall, community members gathered in Pound, Virginia for the annual Red Fox Storytelling Festival. Hear more from Josh Outsey at @wmmtfm in Whitesburg, Kentucky on the latest episode of WMMT's Mountain Talk.
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