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Tenn. Tuesday: Energy Savings! Victories!
TAGS: Appalachian Voices Electric Utilities Energy Efficiency Mountaintop Removal Politics Tennessee TVA Water Water Pollution
EPA’s Benefits Greatly Outweigh Costs, According to OMB Report
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 During their push to abolish, obstruct and stymie the Environmental Protection Agency over the past few years, House Republicans have beleaguered the agency for regulatory measures they consider “job-killing” or “anti-industry,” hoping to…
A Must-Read Report, Another Reminder It’s Time to Build Something New in Central Appalachia
The litany of voices pointing to the writing on the wall for the Central Appalachian coal industry continues to grow. They’re saying the same thing in almost every way imaginable, and have been for some time. Watching coal production decline…
TAGS: appalachia Appalachian Voices Coal Economy Energy Efficiency Kentucky Politics Tennessee Virginia West Virginia
Of Monsters and Zombies: NC Legislature Turning into Bad Horror Flick
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 Among the scary legislation developing in the North Carolina assembly, there are two bills — one a monster of bad environmental reform and the other back from the dead in order to snuff…
TAGS: Coal Ash North Carolina Politics regulatory reform Renewable Energy Renewable Portfolio Standards
Mountaintop Removal 101: Congressional Research Service Updates Report
Every day, more Americans become concerned with the threat of mountaintop removal in Appalachia. Just yesterday, I was made aware of a website called “What About Mountains?” created by a fourth grade class at the Episcopal School of Knoxville. These…
Tennessee Tuesday: What Do We Do Now?
This is a post about how we can improve life for Tennesseans, protect an American culture that has endured for centuries, and promote our beloved Appalachian Mountains that once stood higher than the Himalayas, and are now threatened by mountaintop…
TAGS: appalachia Appalachian Voices Coal Energy Efficiency Mountaintop Removal Politics Tennessee Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act TVA
Rushed Anti-Renewable Energy Bill Stalls in Committee
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 A bill in the N.C. House that would repeal the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (REPS) failed today in the House Committee on Public Utilities and Energy by a vote of 18-13. According…
Renewable Energy Standard Targeted by N.C. Legislature
By Davis Wax Editorial assistant, Spring/Summer 2013 Despite job creation directly linked to North Carolina’s burgeoning clean energy industry, the state’s modest renewable energy standard continues to be targeted by lawmakers. The “Affordable and Reliable Energy Act,” which narrowly passed…
Will This March Madness Be An Upset for Clean Water?
Help Prevent a Clean Water Upset (Picture by mvongrue, hosted by Flickr) UPDATE: The Senate Budget Resolution passed without any of the amendments mentioned below. Victory! As most of you know, between the federal House of Representatives and the Senate,…
Protecting Tennessee’s mountains? Not worth the Senate’s time.
Despite broad citizen and political support for a bill protecting Tennessee’s mountains, the state Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee today decided to not even allow public testimony on the measure and instead killed the bill. SB99, the Scenic…
TAGS: appalachia Appalachian Voices Coal Mountaintop Removal Politics Tennessee Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act Tennessee State legislature
