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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Clean Water Act increasingly violated, N.Y. Times reports, offering database of local information

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The New York Times has performed a major public service, and given journalists all over the country an opportunity to do likewise, by publi...

Obama nominates an advocate for change at Tennessee Valley Authority to utility's board

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President Obama surprised observers of the Tennessee Valley Authority Thursday by nominating Neil McBride, a public-interest lawyer from Ea...

Legendary Appalachian broadcaster Jim Morgan, who won Peabody Award for flood coverage, dies

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James T. "Big Jim" Morgan, a legendary Kentucky broadcaster who won a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of the 1977 Cumberl...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Feds say this time they'll clean the Chesapeake

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"The federal government said Thursday that it would seek an unprecedented role as the environmental police of the Chesapeake Bay -- enf...

EPA says all 79 mountaintop-removal permit applications with Army Corps need further review

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The Environmental Protection Agency is objecting to all 79 pending permit applications for mountaintop-removal mines in Appalachia, signali...

Small towns join movement for 9/11 memorials

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The principal images from Sept. 11, 2001, are of urban skyscrapers and government buildings, but rural America has also taken an active rol...

Maryland blocks new power line, raising possibility huge substation would be built in West Virginia

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We reported more than a year ago that West Virginia had approved the plans for a massive electric transmission line that would stretch acro...

Wolf hunters bag few in Idaho; judge suggests feds wrongly removed species from endangered list

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The history of the gray wolf in the Northern Rockies has been anything but steady. The animal, once shot on sight for killing livestock, we...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Marijuana seizures up in major production areas

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Marijuana seizures are up in key growing areas such as California and Central Appalachia, reports Roger Alford, a Kentucky correspondent for...

EPA blocks permit for mountaintop-removal job that would be the largest coal mine ever in W.Va.

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The Environmental Protection Agency has blocked the permit for Arch Coal 's huge mountaintop-removal mine in Logan County, W.Va. The EP...

Wind energy not only requires turbine towers and transmission lines, but electric substations

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Expansion of wind-energy projects means expansion of other facilities to handle the electrciity they generate. Residents of Boulevard, Calif...

Rural Americans face critical shortage of primary care providers

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Rural Americans account for about 20 percent of the U.S. population, but are served by only 9 percent of the country's physicians, and t...

New series of quarters will feature national parks

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The U.S. quarter-dollar still hasn't found a long-term design. Fresh off the 2008 completion of the decade-long program that honored eac...

Arkansas' Lincoln, strong subsidy backer, replaces Iowa's Harkin as chair of Senate Ag Committee

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Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., has accepted the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee, vacated by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who to...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Colorado weekly keeping promise to stay independent under historical-society ownership

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When the editor of the Silverton Standard and the Miner learned that the paper's owner was likely going to close the weekly, 1,100-cir...

Food producers, eaters, environmentalists talking 'food democracy,' local food, related issues

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The latest issue of The Nation draws focus to an emerging grassroots movement to establish "food democracy," an issue rural jour...

Almost half of serious U.S. hazardous-materials spills go unreported, feds find

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Between 2006 and 2008 nearly half of serious hazardous-materials spills on U.S. highways, railroads, airstrips and waterways went unreported...

Horse breeders' incentives will exclude those who intentionally injure Tennessee Walking Horses

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Breeders who intentionally injure their Tennessee Walking Horses will no longer be eligible for benefits from the Kentucky Walking Horse Ass...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Small daily publisher, like many, says his paper is not just surviving but making progress

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The publisher of a small daily newspaper in California has written a column with "all the topics you'd need for either a civic spee...

Gannett D.C. reporters check rural views of Obama

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How is President Obama, whose background as an urban community organizer was emphasized during the election, relating to rural Americans? Ru...