When forester Benton MacKaye proposed building an Appalachian Trail 100 years ago, he was really thinking about preserving a larger region as a haven from industrial life.
Here are some selected news articles from the week ended 17 July 2021. Part 2 is available here.
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Natural gas rigs at 15 mo high as prices hit 30 mo high; global oil shortage at 830,000 bpd; DUC backlog at 7.6 months
Natural gas prices ended the week unchanged as strong export demand offset cooler weather and a bearish storage report..after slipping 0.7% to $3.674 per mmBTU last week as weather forecasts moderated over the major gas consuming regions, the contract price of natural gas for August delivery jumped 7.5 cents, or more than 2%,
Appalachian coal mines emit more than a million tons of methane a year, and overall the region is the largest U.S. source of the potent greenhouse gas,
Eula Hall, One-Woman Relief Agency in Appalachia, Dies at 93
Calling herself a “hillbilly activist,” she started a health care clinic and offered other services in chronically underserved eastern Kentucky.
Eula Hall in 1991 at the Mud Creek Clinic in Grethel, Ky., where she offered counseling, health care, benefits guidance and more.Credit.Stanley McCleave for The New York Times
May 15, 2021, 12:49 p.m. ET
Eula Hall was a tireless health care activist so tireless that she wasn t about to let an arsonist slow her down.
Among many other things, Mrs. Hall operated the Mud Creek Clinic in eastern Kentucky for mountain people, many of them coal miners and members of their families. One night in 1982, someone looking for drugs set fire to the place. When her patients showed up the next morning to find that the clinic was gone, Mrs. Hall did not miss a beat. She and a doctor set up shop on a picnic table, had a phone installed on a nearby tree and kept their appointments.
Can the Biden Agenda Fix Middle Americaâs Deepest Problem?
One key economic goal is to create the virtuous cycles of innovation and jobs that already occur in many coastal cities.
A farm near Allen, Neb., last year. In much of the middle of the country, population loss and economic decline have fed on each other, a cycle the Biden administration hopes to break. Credit.Brian Lehmann for The New York Times
May 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Last week, the Census Bureau said that the last decadeâs population growth was the slowest in generations. Also last week, President Biden addressed Congress and laid out a wide-ranging, multi-trillion dollar economic agenda.