News

25 Mar

Grassroots Water Testing & Citizens Enforcement

Our January Retreat It was a frigid January weekend when the Grassroots Water Testing and Enforcement team came together in Burnside, KY to establish team priorities for the year and for a full day of training. 12 Alliance members and […]

25 Jul

Stronger Together, Join an Alliance Team

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We have some important and exciting news to report back from our recent summer Steering Committee Meeting! The Alliance for Appalachia brings together our members from across the region for in-person meetings multiple times a year to strengthen our partnerships […]

24 Jul

Finding our Place in the Current Political Moment, What do Anti-Racist Systems Look Like?

Just Transition, News

The Catalyst Project’s Anne Braden Fellowship changed my life. It’s been one of those mind-blowing, eye-opening, better-with-time experiences that I find hard to put into words... This post will be the first in a series where I and other Braden fellows share back what we have learned ...

22 Jul

Frontline, Grassroots Leadership at the 17th Protecting Mother Earth Conference

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In early July, two Alliance members journeyed from Appalachia to the Nisqually Territories near Olympia, WA to join the Protecting Mother Earth Conference, an event co-sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network and Indigenous Climate Action. The conference was hosted by […]

14 Jun

Black Lung on the Rise, Benefits at Risk

Just Transition, Member & Ally Posts, News, RECLAIM & Black Lung, Take Action

The Alliance for Appalachia fights for the protection of our mountains and our miners. We work towards a future that ensures a good quality of life for all people in our communities.

12 Jun

Alliance Steering Meeting June 23-24

Events, Just Transition, News, Policy, Take Action

The Alliance Steering Meeting is June 23-24. If you would like to attend registration is open to members of member groups and groups interested in joining the Alliance. Deadline June 19th. Contact info@theallianceforappalachia.org to register.

08 Jun

Webinar: RECLAIM Act Update

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The Reclaim Act would bring $1 billion dollars to coal-impacted communities struggling with the decline of the industry to clean up old, abandoned mines and could create economic revitalization.

Op-Ed on Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee in Times Free Press

Just Transition, Member & Ally Posts, News, Policy

The bill's sponsors and the Tennessee Mining Association would like us to believe that taking over the coal program would cost the state little to no money.

25 Apr

Members featured on Climate Change News

Just Transition, Member & Ally Posts, News

Across the US, mine reclamation – even when approved by state regulators – rarely returns land to pre-mining levels of wilderness or productivity, according to a decade of government reports

Center for Coalfield Justice Featured on the Refinery29

Just Transition, Member & Ally Posts, News

Check out our Executive Director of Center for Coalfield Justice, Veronica Coptis, and their staff attorney, Sarah, in this news clip from Refinery29:

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