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This week, #InsideAppalachia 🌄, a new memoir explores the struggle to stay in Appalachia and the struggle to leave. Also, an exhibit in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, documents the contributions of the Catawba Nation to the American Revolutionary War. 🎧️👉️ wvpublic.org/podcasts/inside-appalachia/
Inside Appalachia
Inside Appalachia tells the stories of our people, and how they live today. The show is an audio tour of our rich history, food, music and culture.Listen Sundays at 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. on WVPB…
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Black lung disease continues to ravage the health of miners in Appalachia, with more deadly and severe cases hitting miners at younger ages than ever before. Thank you to @aljazeera.com's Fault Lines for this incredibly powerful reporting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23SA8EK37Kw&t=2s
Inside America's black lung crisis | Fault Lines Documentary
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interestingengineering.com/energy/us-fi... Where the New Deal almost 100 years ago brought the Grid to Appalachia is being upgraded to model protecting the entire country in the 21st Century without gas or oil. Do not tell 47.
US firm to boost next-gen grid modernization, advance battery storage
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory selected Viridi’s fail-safe battery energy storage systems (BESS) to install at ORNL’s Grid Research Innovation and Development Center (GRID-C) as part of the testing...
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Carolina Curious: What is 'Beans in a Jar' month? A High Country tradition thought to predict winter snowfalls. #WFDD #Appalachia #Folklore #HighCountry
Carolina Curious: What is 'Beans in a Jar' month?
There’s a High Country tradition that starts in August. Supposedly, it helps predict how many snowfalls the area will get during the winter. It’s called “Beans in a Jar.” For this week’s Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Reyna Drake discovers what’s behind the longstanding Appalachian ritual.
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Maryland Public TV has just released a wonderful hour-long documentary about Del McCoury's annual DelFest music festival, "Sweet Appalachia: The Story of DelFest," produced and directed by @anniedanzi.bsky.social of Frostburg State U. Highly recommended! Stream it: video.mpt.tv/video/sweet-...
MPT Presents | Sweet Appalachia: The Story of DelFest
The story of how the music festival DelFest revitalized the rural city of Cumberland, Maryland.
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Read "Kentucky Governor Issues Clear Warning to Mitch McConnell—and Trump" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8enM6z7O/O...
Kentucky Governor Issues Clear Warning to Mitch McConnell—and Trump (The New Republic)
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is backing off threats to replace Senator Mitch McConnell, noting that the Republican’s extended absence would hurt his party ...
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"One in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. The results? Wages grew in tandem with the economy. The middle class thrived. Black-white wage gaps shrank." https://loom.ly/UEtluqg #Appalachia #UnionStrong
The case for tripling union membership: How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy
Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. The results? Wages grew in tandem with the economy. The middle class thrived. Black-white wage gaps shrank. Broadly shared economic growth was a…
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Trans people are 2.2x more likely to experience displacement or property damage from flooding, 3.5x more likely to have a negative health experience from flooding, and 3.8x more likely to suffer a negative health experience from extreme heat. Learn with our new blog @ https://loom.ly/xyO0MnY
The massive #xAI data center behind Grok, the #AI for X, produces more climate pollution than all but one of TVA's #coal power plants. The NAACP, represented by @selc.bsky.social & @earthjustice.org, is suing.
This data center rivals TVA’s largest coal plant for climate pollution
Power plants, an oil refinery and a chemical plant are among Tennessee’s top climate polluters. If Elon Musk’s sprawling xAI data center campus in Memphis
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Virginia State Parks is the first park system in the nation to have a #colorblind viewfinder at each one of its 43 locations — other states are following suit. ✍️: Debra Murray for The Appalachian Voice
Colorblind Viewfinders Make Appalachian State Parks More Accessible
Virginia State Parks is the first park system in the nation to have a colorblind viewfinder at each one of its 43 locations — thanks to the dedication of one park ranger. Other states like Tennessee and North Carolina are following suit.
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#Congress may advance a bill that lets projects sidestep pollution protections by labeling them as “national defense” or part of the so-called "energy emergency.” Read why the Defense Production Act is dangerous in Chelsea Barnes’ blog post: https://loom.ly/2jsgkhA
The grave new threat facing communities
The Trump-Vance administration has used the Defense Production Act to prop up fossil fuel industries, including issuing hundreds of millions of dollars in DPA grants to keep aging coal plants operating and fund new coal-fired power plants.
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Millions of gallons of fracking wastewater are injected deep underground in Ohio each year—potentially carrying toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and radioactive materials. If injection wells fail or are mismanaged, groundwater and nearby communities are at risk. https://loom.ly/VZj1Z1Q
In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground
The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.
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#Virginia residents are the first in the nation to access to the Switch Together program, a new initiative to help homeowners & small businesses access affordable solar thru group purchasing, making it easier to lower ⚡ bills & invest in #CleanEnergy. ☀️ https://loom.ly/7iVorm4
Program to offer affordable solar options - Kenbridge Victoria Dispatch
Virginia will be the first state in the nation to offer residents the opportunity to participate in Switch Together — an optional solar
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A report from the Trump administration’s coal council casts a pair of 70-year-old coal plants as efficient, economic and vital to the grid, though they actually lose money for electricity customers. From @tatecurtis.bsky.social at @weku.bsky.social
Trump’s coal council touts plants that lose money for Kentucky electricity customers
The National Coal Council says the Ohio Valley Electric Corp. plants in Madison, Indiana, and Cheshire, Ohio, are efficient and economic.
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The couple Davis denied a marriage license want a Kentucky judge to void the transfer of properties she inherited and then gifted away.
Kim Davis accused of hiding inheritance to avoid paying gay couple $565K judgment
The couple Davis denied a marriage license want a Kentucky judge to void the transfer of properties she inherited and then gifted away.
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