Articles by Regional Reporter, Appalachia Katie Myers
Katie Myers reports on climate change in Appalachia through a partnership between Grist and Blue Ridge Public Radio in western North Carolina. She previously served as a climate solutions fellow at Grist, and as an economic transition reporter in eastern Kentucky with the Ohio Valley ReSource and WMMT 88.7 FM. Her freelance work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and the New Republic, among others, and she has completed media fellowships with the Society for Environmental Journalists, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, America Amplified, and the Solutions Journalism Network.
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![A truck is loaded with coal at a mine in Cumberland, Kentucky, on August 26, 2019.]()
![A truck is loaded with coal at a mine in Cumberland, Kentucky, on August 26, 2019.]()
Trump is fast-tracking new coal mines — even when they don’t make economic sense
In Appalachian Tennessee, mines shut down and couldn't pay their debts. Now a new one is opening under the guise of an "energy emergency."
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![Hundreds of yellow fireflies flicker along a road through a forest.]()
![Hundreds of yellow fireflies flicker along a road through a forest.]()
Seeing fewer fireflies this year? Here’s why, and how you can help.
Fireflies are vulnerable to climate change and habitat loss. Some simple landscaping tricks and turning off porch lights can make a big difference.
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![A female river guide leads two groups of rafts down a river]()
![A female river guide leads two groups of rafts down a river]()
A year after Helene, river guides in Appalachia are navigating a new world
The first tourist season since the storm reveals how much the river and livelihoods have changed.
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![A mural showing three coal miners is seen through the window of a business in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.]()
![A mural showing three coal miners is seen through the window of a business in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.]()
Coal miners are fighting Trump’s safety cuts — and winning
When the Trump administration moved to shut mine safety offices and shutter a program that protects miners from black lung disease, miners demanded it reverse course. It quietly did.
