Tennessee valley authority (TVA) cited by EPA for the worst environmental spill in the United States

December 22, 2008 the retaining wall around TVA's coal waste material, next to their Harriman (Kingston) power plant, failed and approximately 500 million gallons of coal ash flowed into tributaries of the Tennessee River. This Tennessee Valley spill is said to be over 40 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Read More . . .

Community Groups and grassroots organizations respond to TVA disaster

SACE Updates on TVA Coal Disaster Read More. . .

No Such Thing as Clean Coal Read More. . .

4th Annual Bluegrass and BBQ New York Benefit

for the Appalachian Community Fund
Featuring a live performance by Rosanne Cash

was a success!!

Thanks for all who attended and supported the event.

ACF Hires New Development Director, Margo Miller

Read Press Release

VOICES FOR aPPALACHIA
PORTRAIT-STORY PROJECT

Being our own media
Be your own ethnographer and historian
A positive self-fulfilling paradigm of expression

The Portrait-Story Project is a mobile, networked and volunteer art-media-social phenomenon whose primary purpose is to bring and co-generate an aesthetic and practice of media solidarity to the self-determination of communities and individuals connected to the land they live on.

 

Visit portraitstoryproject.org & voicesforappalachia.org

Now on exhibit in the ACF lobby at 530 South Gay Street, Knoxville

 

Grassroots Organizations Working to End Mountaintop Removal (MTR)  in Central Appalachia Featured in ACF’s Spring 2008 Newsletter


West Virginia
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

Kentucky
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

Tennessee

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In addition to the organizations highlighted in our Spring newsletter, several other organizations are working to end MTR in our region, many of which are ACF grantees, and are also a part of the Alliance for Appalachia.

The Alliance For Appalachia

The Alliance For Appalachia is a collaboration of thirteen organizations in Central Appalachia working to bring an end to the devastating coal mining technique known as mountaintop removal.  The Alliance For Appalachia also seeks to promote a just and sustainable economy and a clean, renewable energy future in the region.

The Alliance For Appalachia Members:
Grassroots organizations
Coal River Mountain Watch
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
Save Our Cumberland Mountains 
Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy

Partner organizations
Appalachian Citizens Law Center
Appalachian Voices
Appalshop
Heartwood
MACED
Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program
Southwings

Other Organizations Working on Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
United Mountain Defense
Mountain Justice Summer 
Katuah Earth First!

we've moved! acf's new address is:

Appalachian Community Fund
530 South Gay Street, Suite 700
Knoxville, TN 37902

*Our phone and fax numbers are the same. We're in the Farragut Building in downtown Knoxville. Please feel free to come by and see us.