The governor’s platform includes many of the solutions that advocates have been calling for over the past several years.

For nearly two years, residents of Unicoi County, Tennessee, have had to make do without a hospital. “Some people are still struggling,” says Jimmy Erwin, director of the Unicoi County Emergency ...

Since the proposed federal prison near Roxana was first announced, it has faced opposition from some local residents. Photo by Willie Dodson A $605 million proposal for a federal prison on a former ...

Solar customers across the Tennessee Valley who produce clean energy should receive fair credit for the energy they send back to the grid! When a rooftop solar system produces more electricity than is ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — In a win for communities across the Tennessee Valley, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority’s decision to build ...

“To a child of Appalachia, to see the mountains laid waste, whether by clear-cutting or strip mining, is to witness a dagger plunged into the very bosom from which you sprang and which has sustained ...

The six-year fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline has left its mark on communities all along the project’s roughly 303-mile route. Some of these marks are physical — a vertical scar of felled ...

Throughout the history of the United States, Appalachia has attracted the attention of outside investors hoping to profit from the region’s valuable commodities. First timber, then coal and now ...

Sheep graze and enjoy the shade under solar panels on a farm in Virginia. “Our animals are thriving out there,” says Jess Gray, CEO of Gray’s LAMBscaping. Photo by Jess Gray. Before a solar developer ...

The remnants of coal mining are stark in Southeast Ohio’s Sunday Creek watershed. The waterway is stained bright orange from significant amounts of acid mine drainage flowing out of old, abandoned ...

Donna Dickson’s home sits perched on the mountainside along a winding stretch of Highway 52 in McDowell County, West Virginia. The area is best known as coal country, where generations of stalwart ...