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Dairy Dilemma: Food Shelters Awash In Surplus Milk They Can’t Afford To Store
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Cyndi Kirkhart has some 26,000 square feet of warehouse space at the Facing Hunger Food Bank in Huntington, West Virginia, where she is executive director. That sounds like a lot of space…. Read More

Wastewater Woes: For These Appalachian Towns, It’s Always Infrastructure Week
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Kimberly Shatney lives just outside Pine Grove, West Virginia, an incorporated town of about 500 people with a big problem. Behind a small sandwich shop in town, she points to… Read More

Teachable Moment: What Teacher Protests Portend For Schools, Labor And Elections
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When Oklahoma teacher Sally Salmons saw momentum building toward teacher protests in her state, she immediately reached out to family ties and educators in West Virginia. She said teacher walkouts… Read More

Stopping School Shootings: Researcher Says Compassionate Culture Can Help
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In the wake of school shootings in Kentucky and Florida, a rash of copycat school threats throughout the Ohio Valley left law enforcement and school officials grappling with how to… Read More

Rare Opportunity: Researchers See Potential In Mining Coal Waste
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Throughout coal mining country of the Eastern U.S. you will find streams that run a peculiar rusty orange. It’s the result of pollution called acid mine drainage, or AMD. It’s… Read More

R.I.P., CPP? Clean Energy Trend Likely To Continue Despite Trump’s Clean Power Repeal
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey stood in front of the state’s capitol to rally the roughly 120 coal miners and industry boosters gathered there. “The fight against the unlawful… Read More

Clean Power Plan’s Repeal Gets Hearing In Coal Country
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Last month the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt chose an eastern Kentucky mining town as the venue to announce his intent to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era… Read More

Carbon Capture Reconsidered: Big-Ticket Climate Fix Gets a Fresh Look
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A bipartisan group in Congress, including several Ohio Valley lawmakers, is pushing for more federal support for technology known as carbon capture and storage. The lawmakers and an uncommon alliance… Read More