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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Emily Jones |Katie Myers |Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco |Izzy Ross |Mary Landers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist,BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina,WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station, WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan.
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1 month ago | 
tucsonsentinel.com | Katie Myers |Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco |Izzy Ross
Grist "This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here."On a recent Friday afternoon, Marie Richards sat in her living room in northern Michigan. She was having a hard time talking about her job at the U.S. Forest Service in the past tense.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Katie Myers |Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco |Izzy Ross
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina, WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. On a recent Friday afternoon, Marie Richards sat in her living room in northern Michigan.
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2 months ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Katie Myers |Sara Peach
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ancestor,” DeVaughan said. “It’s a return of a relative.” That relative was the land they stood on, part of a tract slated for a federal penitentiary that many in the crowd consider another injustice in a region riddled with them.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
hendersonvillelightning.com | Katie Myers
Biden administration kills National Old Growth Amendment The U.S. Forest Service has dropped plans for a final environmental impact statement related to managing old-growth forests on public lands such as those across Western North Carolina’s national forests.
For more than two years, the agency has been planning for a major policy change aimed at protecting the nation’s hundred-plus-year-old trees from the ravages of climate change.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Katie Myers |David Elstone |Kevin Mason |Bob Brash
After two and a half years of planning, Biden administration kills the National Old Growth Amendment By Katie Myers Blue Ridge Public Radio January 8, 2025 Category: Forestry Region: United States …The U.S. Forest Service has dropped plans for a final environmental impact statement related to managing old-growth forests on public lands such as those across Western North Carolina’s national forests. …The proposed Old Growth Amendment was designed to introduce consistency to old-growth...
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
wunc.org | Katie Myers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The U.S. Forest Service has dropped plans for a final environmental impact statement related to managing old-growth forests on public lands such as those across Western North Carolina’s national forests. For more than two years, the agency has been planning for a major policy change aimed at protecting the nation’s hundred-plus-year-old trees from the ravages of climate change.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Katie Myers
This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaborationOn the second weekend after Hurricane Helene, Swannanoa Christian Church held its first Sunday service since the storm battered western North Carolina. The sanctuary was piled high with clothes, water, and food, so everyone gathered outdoors.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
motherjones.com | Katie Myers
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the second weekend after Hurricane Helene, Swannanoa Christian Church held its first Sunday service since the storm-battered western North Carolina. The sanctuary was piled high with clothes, water, and food, so everyone gathered outdoors.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bpr.org | Katie Myers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Army Corps of Engineers has ordered CSX to stop mining the Nolichucky riverbed for material used in railroad repairs, according to a copy of a letter shared by The Southern Environmental Law Center, which has sued over the issue. Hurricane Helene destroyed a section of CSX railroad through the Nolichucky River Gorge.
