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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100 days in, does Trump still ‘dig’ coal?
Presidents have long used coal miners as political props. Yet federal policies have done little to improve their lives, and some things have actually gotten worse.
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![Black vultures sit across the Tennessee River from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station]()
![Black vultures sit across the Tennessee River from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station]()
The Trump administration says it wants a ‘nuclear renaissance.’ These actions suggest otherwise.
Tariffs and a shake-up at the Tennessee Valley Authority could be getting in the way.
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![An ecologist surveys the damage Hurricane Helene caused in the Elk Mountains of western North Carolina.]()
![An ecologist surveys the damage Hurricane Helene caused in the Elk Mountains of western North Carolina.]()
Why the Forest Service is logging after Hurricane Helene — and why some say it’s a mistake
Volunteers, scientists, and hikers are asking for transparency in a process they say could prioritize profit over ecosystems.
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![A man leans against a wheelbarrow while clearing debris from Marshall Presbyterian Church in Marshall, North Carolina, in the wake of Hurricane Helene.]()
![A man leans against a wheelbarrow while clearing debris from Marshall Presbyterian Church in Marshall, North Carolina, in the wake of Hurricane Helene.]()
Trump axed a rule designed to spare taxpayers the burden of future flooding
The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again.
