If you’re looking to save money on electric bills, make your home more comfortable and reduce your environmental impact, getting a home energy audit is

Tell your reps to fund heating and food assistance!

Southwest Virginia Building Upgrade Program (SWVA Building UP) is a pilot program administered by Appalachian Voices to provide energy assessments, technical assistance and funding for energy efficiency upgrades for community-serving organizations in the Southwest Virginia coalfield region, such as non-profits, local governments and local small-businesses. The purpose of Building UP is to create more resilient, … Southwest Virginia Building Upgrade Program (SWVA Building UP) Read More »

Local advocates have spoken out against the methane gas pipeline project that would come through the Triad for months.

Attend the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's SSEP Air Permit Hearing in Mooresville, NC, on November 13.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced $155 million in public assistance reimbursements for western North Carolina due to the devastation of Hurricane Helene in September 2024.

After hours of public comment from over 80 speakers, Goochland's Board of Supervisors voted to approve the plan for a Technology Overlay District during a packed meeting Thursday night.

We need to tell our senators that TVA needs expertise on its board of directors, not pro-privatization auctioneers.

Community members rallied at the TVA headquarters on Wednesday evening to protest the start of construction of the Ridgeline pipeline.

Nov. 20: Keeping the Lights On: Affordable Energy for Our Communities

Coal miners and advocates rally for long-promised silica protections to stop the rise of black lung across Appalachia.

In his first full-length poetry collection, “All These Ghosts,” Silas House, an award-winning Appalachian author and former poet laureate of Kentucky, grapples with deep personal grief and “timesickness,” or the deep longing for a time, place or spiritual state that no longer exists.

Chrissy Miller is a disaster case manager in Cocke County, Tennessee, who helps survivors of Hurricane Helene access resources, fulfill unmet needs, develop recovery plans and try to make sense of difficult situations. For Miller, who was also impacted by the storm, it’s hard to rein in the scope of her work.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice is the richest senator in the country, according to recent reporting that also highlights his substantial debts. In light of this news, we thought it appropriate to provide an update on our team’s continued work to deal with the ongoing impacts of his family’s coal empire, and their decades-long track record of environmental destruction.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released an Environmental Assessment for the methane gas pipeline Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, proposed for Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.

Mountain Valley Pipeline has submitted an application to the federal government to build a new compressor station in Montgomery County and expand three existing compressors in West Virginia.

“Here we go again,” is what Crystal Mello, an organizer for the Preserve Our Water Heritage, Rights Coalition, says she said to herself when she learned that Mountain Valley Pipeline was planning a new compressor station in Elliston, Virginia, as part of a project to send even more gas through the massive 42-inch pipeline.

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

Tell FERC: Deny mountain valley pipeline's southgate extension!

Birding enthusiasts may be able to spot these 36 New World warbler species at Seven Islands State Birding Park in Kodak, Tennessee, this fall migration season.

Paddlers will soon return to the whitewater river of Western North Carolina for the world’s largest extreme kayaking event. After the destruction of Hurricane Helene sent the renowned Green Race on a yearlong hiatus, the paddling community is gearing up for the race’s 30th year on Nov. 1, which will look much different with the Green River’s course reshaped by the storm.