As climate change leads to more intense flooding, communities will need to make crucial — and creative — investments to protect themselves.
Category: Appalachia
Posted inAppalachia, Atlantic Coast, Climate, Delta, Gulf Coast, Infrastructure, Mid-South
‘Communities shouldn’t have to rely on miracles’: A conversation with Samantha Montano
We sat down with the disaster researcher to discuss her forthcoming book, Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis.
Posted inAppalachia, COVID-19, Economies, Energy, Public Health
A decade after signing over gas rights, W.Va. Hare Krishna community reflects on its relationship to land
The religious community needed the money from signing gas leases, but it’s a decision that still divides people today.
Posted inAppalachia, COVID-19, Economies, Energy, Justice, Public Health
Biden vows to support struggling Appalachian counties. But residents are weary of failed promises.
Coal communities in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia are struggling to support basic civic services as coal disappears. Federal funding to boost local economies and jobs is closer than ever before.
Posted inJustice
The multibillion dollar question: What will it take to fix the South’s broken water systems?
The winter storm revealed the fragility of rural and urban water systems. Biden’s new infrastructure plan could help improve them — but it’s only a start.
Posted inAppalachia, COVID-19, Food & Agriculture, Kentucky, Public Health, Uncategorized
How a federal program is filling an education gap for rural migrant students during the pandemic
Many migrant workers and their families rely on the Migrant Education Program to help students access school work. The pandemic has made it even more challenging.
Posted inAppalachia, Energy, Tennessee
A New Deal legacy, electric cooperatives struggle to democratize and make a green transition
An FDR program to electrify rural America is now beset by expensive coal plants and often-hidebound governing boards, as members clamor for transparency and renewables.