On May Day, the Trump admin fired a mine safety commissioner & closed the Pittsburgh office of the agency that handles mine safety disputes. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports on what that could mean for coal miners already facing black lung, silica dust & dangerous work: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
“If this President or any politician truly wants to talk about the coal industry, they need to start by protecting the people who make it possible: the miners.” #BlackLungKills
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Guns, Germs, and Steel:
hmmmm
"due to “current economic conditions.”"
Healing Appalachia announces cancellation of 2026 music festival
The 2026 print edition of The Appalachian Voice will be available on newsstands beginning this month! 🗞️ 🎉 Please sign up to get copies for yourself and to share with others. Use this form to order free copies of the newspaper for yourself or others: https://appvoices.org/voice/distribution-2026/
So excited to see a nature school come to the coalfields!
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In These Times
Forget shark week -- It's climate solutions week y'all
This year the theme is LOCAL solutions - ways that cities and states and neighborhoods are stepping up when the federal government backtracks on climate action.
I'll thread the stories here as the week goes on...
Here's our intro ⬇️📻🎧
Appalachian Citizens' Law Center
NPR's Julia Simon kicks off Climate Solutions Week with a look at how cities and states are working to reduce emissions.
If you were around the KY/VA border on HWY 23 last Friday, you might have heard the sounds of an Appalachian shindig in downtown Pound. Pound, usually known for having almost lost its charter because of widespread corruption, is now showing up as a leader in true community-led revitalization. 1/5
A fantastic week at the National Adaptation Forum in Pittsburgh hearing from folks all over the adaptation and resilience world
Don't let the coal industry roll over the Monongahela National Forest! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/do...
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In one fell swoop, the Trump administration took an axe to the agency tasked with handling legal disputes around mine worker safety. It could signal even deeper cuts to worker protections coming down…
The Care Collective is a proud sponsor of the Wee Ones Forest School, beginning programming Summer 2026. From June 9th to July 7th 2026, Wee Ones will meet on Tuesdays in Legion Park from 10:30am-1…
By RealWV Staff, Tyler Childers performs in Kentucky as part of Healing Appalachia 2025. Photo by Healing Appalachia. ASHLAND, KY -- In an announcement
The Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia is a national treasure. “The Mon” boasts some of the continent’s southernmost cranberry bogs and red spruce forests, as well as numerous rare species a...
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Last week, the Trump Administration announced it was indefinitely pausing a new safeguard that would have curbed the silica dust that is causing black lung.
