Friday, June 26th, 2020 | Posted by AV's Intern Team | No Comments
A new report examines the economic, social and health disparities associated with energy development, and highlights promising points of intervention to reduce inequities in the transition to clean energy.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 | Posted by Emily Piontek | No Comments
In a major threat to clean energy advances across the U.S., a special interest group wants federal regulators to change the rules for solar owners -- in a bad way. [
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 | Posted by Chelsea Barnes | No Comments
New energy laws in Virginia provide significant opportunity for solar development in the state's historic coalfields, but not enough direct support for communities hit by the clean energy transition. [
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 | Posted by Peter Anderson | No Comments
Advocates for clean energy, environmental justice and fair electricity pricing are leveraging the shift in political power in Richmond to advance their missions. Here's some of the bills Appalachian Voices is working on this session. [
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Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 | Posted by Chelsea Barnes | No Comments
Pro-solar policy is crucial to bringing clean, renewable energy to Southwest Virginia and Appalachia as a whole. [
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Clean energy expert Ivy Main looks at how a lack of transparency and democracy at many Virginia electric cooperatives is causing them to fall behind on renewable energy. Member-owners at Rappahannock Electric Cooperative are trying to change that. [
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Thursday, June 13th, 2019 | Posted by AV's Intern Team | No Comments
Once the planet's temperature rises 1.5 degrees Celsius due to global warming, "the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse polish off their martinis, look at each other, and say, ‘It’s go time.’” [
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Thursday, November 15th, 2018 | Posted by AV's Intern Team | 2 Comments
Ouachita Electric Cooperative in Arkansas offers programs that make energy efficiency and high-speed internet accessible and affordable, and is using solar to help grow the local economy and save money. If Ouachita can do it, what's stopping other electric co-ops from following suit? [
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Friday, July 6th, 2018 | Posted by Rory McIlmoil | 2 Comments
As a resident of the North Carolina High Country and a member of Blue Ridge Energy, Appalachian Voices' Rory McIlmoil believes the co-op can and must do better by its members. [
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 | Posted by Brian Sewell | No Comments
Appalachian Voices and our allies are raising concerns related to the process and substance behind Duke Energy's grid modernization pilot. [
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Thursday, July 13th, 2017 | Posted by Guest Contributor | No Comments
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality is developing a rule that could significantly limit carbon emissions from power plants in the commonwealth. Developing a carbon trading program would be a sound option. [
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2017 | Posted by Elizabeth E. Payne | No Comments
Despite his repeated promises to do so, President Trump is unlikely to revive the coal industry through federal policy, and CEOs of electric utilities and coal mining companies know it. [
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