Each year, as Virginia’s General Assembly convenes, lawmakers are confronted with hundreds of proposals running the gamut from education to energy. Many involve complicated issues, and many are distorted by corporate interests and political posturing. This year the legislature is…
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Renewing the Push for Renewable Energy in Virginia
TAGS: Appalachian Voices Coal Economy Electric Utilities Energy Efficiency Renewable Energy Virginia
New Report Explores the Frontiers of Energy Efficiency
After combing through the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s far-reaching report, Frontiers of Energy Efficiency: Next Generation Programs Reach for High Energy Savings, it would be hard not to have high hopes for a more efficient future. Surveying 22…
The New Faces and Issues of North Carolina
THE NEW FACES For the first time since 1870, the Republican party controls both the executive and legislative branches in North Carolina government. With the General Assembly sporting veto-proof majorities in both its chambers, and Pat McCrory’s election making him…
A Clean(er) World
By Molly Moore No country is an energy island. In the face of a European Union sanction that bans steel imports, Iran is using roundabout trading methods to secure metallurgical coal, used in steel manufacturing, from Ukraine. A state-backed firm…
TAGS: Center for American Progress Coal coal electricity electricity energy Energy Efficiency energy future Energy Savings green energy future International Energy Agency Renewable Energy
Don’t Depress, Divest — Reflections on 350.org’s Climate Change Roadshow
On Monday, author and environmentalist Bill McKibben and 350.org’s climate change roadshow, the “Do the Math” tour, packed the Page Auditorium at Duke University. The energy in the room was high, the crowd was diverse and full of familiar faces,…
TAGS: Climate change Energy Efficiency Environment North Carolina Renewable Energy Science and Nature
Organizational Round-Up
Showing Some Clean Water Love On October 18, shortly after we go to press, the Clean Water Act will turn 40 years old. In conjunction with that anniversary, our Red, White & Water team is putting together a report on…
TAGS: Clean Water Act Clean Water Act 40th Anniversary Eco-Literacy Energy Efficiency Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit rural electric cooperatives Sheila Ostroff
Two School Districts Go Green to Save Green
By Toby MacDermott North Adams Elementary is one of the greenest schools in southeast Ohio. With solar panels on the roof, wild turkeys roaming the grounds, and a design based on LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, standards,…
TAGS: Adams County/Ohio Valley school district energy conservation Energy Efficiency geothermal energy green building Scott County Schools Solar Energy
AV, Citizens Groups Oppose TVA’s Rush to Judgement
>>>Proud to join Sierra and TCWN on this important effort. It’s a simple choice. TVA should be putting money into energy efficiency programs rather than trying to extend the life of an expensive, inefficient, dirty coal plant like Gallatin. –…
Welcome to Virginia’s Energy Conference, with your host King Coal
Last week, Appalachian Voices and members of the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition attended the Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s Energy Conference. Looking at the agenda, we were prepared for what would surely be a biased conference. But we didn’t know…
TAGS: appalachia Coal Electric Utilities Energy Efficiency Environment EPA Health Mountaintop Removal Politics Renewable Energy Virginia
Report Exposes How Big Coal, Electric Utility Money Dominates Virginia Politics and Policy
In advance of the Governor’s Energy Conference that is sponsored by Dominion Virginia Power, Alpha Natural Resources and Appalachian Power Company, Appalachian Voices and our allies released a white paper highlighting the influence that coal companies and utilities wield over…
