Asheville City Council Approves Clean Energy Resolution In October, the city council of Asheville, N.C., unanimously approved a resolution to phase out the city’s use of coal-fired electricity and increase power generated from cleaner sources and saved through energy efficiency.…
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Progress and Setbacks for Appalachia’s Environment
TAGS: Asheville clean energy Energy Efficiency Environmental Protection Agency EPA fracking gas drilling mountaintop removal coal mining Selenium West Virginia
Plundering Private Property Rights
By Paige Campbell Half a dozen generations ago, when a coal-mining boom first enticed southwest Virginians to sell the rights to minerals beneath their land, the deal they were making concerned the coal itself. At least, that’s how Virginia’s courts…
TAGS: Coal fracking gas drilling Marcellus Shale mineral rights mining companies private property rights
