Tag: <span>appalachia</span>

Mountain Valley Protestors Won’t Pipe Down

We just spent Earth Day in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and people are wondering what the “new normal” looks like by questioning what type of work is considered “essential.” Near my house in Kingston, NY, for instance, road construction has ramped up now that there’s less traffic. …

On the Frontlines, Power is Shifting

by Robert Friedman Originally posted on October 22, 2013 on switchboard.nrdc.org There’s something about standing on a fracking pad or at the edge of a mountaintop removal site that changes you forever. You ask yourself how anyone could be so blinded to be removing mountains from the landscape, to be contaminating peoples’ …