Protect Our Water Heritage Rights

05/11/2026

Amber Wendler is a powerful member of the community! Learn about her in this week's highlight and check out the book she co-edited, Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature.

If you would like to nominate someone for the Environmental Steward highlight email [email protected]

Q: Share your favorite hobby with us
A: Running. It's a great way for me to stay connected with nature and clear my mind.

Q: What's your favorite season and why?
A: Fall. I love the colorful leaves, cooler temperatures, and exploring the changing forests.

Q: Why do you fight for the environment?
A: I fight for the environment because everyone deserves clean water, clean air, and a healthy place to live—yet the communities most harmed by environmental and climate change have contributed the least to causing it. As an ecologist, advocate, and someone who loves spending time outdoors, I’ve seen how deeply our lives are tied to healthy ecosystems. Protecting the environment means standing up for people, nature, and future generations, and ensuring everyone has a voice in shaping solutions.

05/10/2026

"When the county utility investigated, officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed."

Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.

05/07/2026

🚨"Before the plans can move forward, the project will have to receive approval from the county through a conditional use permit, get the green light from the State Corporation Commission and secure a Department of Environmental Quality air permit."

Dominion Energy is aiming to expand their portfolio of energy sources in Virginia with a massive 3,000 megawatt (3 gigawatts) combined cycle natural gas plant in Cumberland County.

05/07/2026

🦋 Join POWHR and partners on Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 PM ET for important permit updates, public participation opportunities, and calls-to-action in opposition to the MVP Boost Project and Swann Compressor Station!

Join POWHR and partners for important permit updates, public participation opportunities, and calls-to-action in opposition to the MVP Boost Project and Swann Compressor Station. More details to follow!

05/06/2026

Are you a student at Virginia Tech or a local resident doing some Spring cleaning? Holler 2 Holler is accepting donations and offering extra hours at our space in Newport (address in bio) to collect items that would otherwise be thrown away. Our goal is to keep items out of the landfills and get them back into the homes of people in the area who could put them to good use!

If you have items you'd like to see go towards this effort please feel free to come by during our regular Community Day every Wednesday from 2-6PM or reach out to us directly here on socials and email ([email protected]) to arrange other drop-offs & possible pick-ups. If you are interested in helping us make this happen as a volunteer please also reach out!

Reminder that tomorrow is Community Day from 2-6PM & we continue to accept ongoing donations for our 'Community Not Cages' work here in the NRV.

Priority donations this week are:
Laundry Detergent
Dish Soap
Fabuloso cleaner, Bleach
TP & Paper towels
Beans
Rice
Corn Tortilla
Fruits and Vegetables
Avocados
Eggs
Meat
Soap & toothpaste
Kid snack juices

Hope to see you there!

05/05/2026

MVP Boost seeks to increase the volume of methane deliveries on the Mountain Valley Pipeline by 33%. Which will then be burned, adding more carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change, and creating more of the extreme drought conditions we find ourselves in right now. Enough is enough.

Methane emissions from fossil fuels stayed near record highs in 2025, with no sign of decline despite proven, low-cost ways to reduce them, the International

05/05/2026

**Support POWHR's work in keeping our communities safe!** We are organizing opposition to the proposed MVP Boost project, which would expand capacity at three existing MVP compressor stations in West Virginia and add a mega-sized Swann compressor station in Eastern Montgomery County, Virginia. ***Th...

05/01/2026

Reposting for pals at and , amplifying an invitation to join these good folks and the travelin' pipeline fightin' farmer-troubadour Maury Johnson (Hero from the Holler!) for a film screening of , a series by featuring some familiar faces leading the some of biggest environmental justice campaigns around.

We'll post more updates from Maury's film screening tour soon!

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You're invited to a FREE film screening right here in Lake Charles!

Join us on Saturday, May 3rd at 5:00 PM at For a Better Bayou (1638 Ryan St) for a special double screening of the award-winning documentary series VS. GOLIATH — executive produced by Don Cheadle.

VS. GOLIATH: Cancer Alley
A Louisiana grandmother and retired schoolteacher named Sharon Lavigne leads her parish in a fight against a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant threatening to pollute their community. This one hits close to home.

VS. GOLIATH: Appalachia
An army veteran unites farmers, neighbors, and Indigenous leaders to stand up against a massive gas pipeline — and the powerful forces behind it.

We're also excited to welcome Maury Johnson, who is bringing these films to communities across the country on his Great American "Crazy" Train Trip! Maury is traveling by bus and train from Appalachia all the way through the Gulf Coast to share these stories and spark conversation — and Lake Charles is one of his stops. Come hear firsthand from someone living this mission.

After the screening, we'll gather for a conversation about what these stories mean for our Gulf Coast community.

✅ FREE admission
📍 For a Better Bayou, 1638 Ryan St, Lake Charles
📅 Saturday, May 3rd | 5:00 PM
🔗 RSVP & info: https://bit.ly/fabbfilm

See you there — bring a friend! 🙌
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04/30/2026

“Unfortunately, MVP is being allowed to move forward with construction while our clients’ challenges to the pipeline’s Virginia and North Carolina water permits are heard, risking real harm to Virginia and North Carolina waters and wetlands. It will have real consequences for landowners and communities along the Southgate route, disrupting their way of life, affecting streams and rivers that people know and depend on, and harming the environment, and the aquatic life that inhabits those waterways.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied motions for stay, pending judicial review, of both the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (VDEQ) and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s (NCDEQ) Clean Water Act Section 401 Certific...

04/29/2026

POWHR is partnering with Radford University to create the MVP Archive. This will be a physical and digital collection of documents, photos, artifacts and mementos from people that have been a part of the fight to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline. This collection will share stories of what it was like to be a part of this movement. For over 10 years activists, landowners and community members have been fighting for justice. We have watched land get stolen and destroyed. We have witnessed waterways being polluted and trees being cut down. The impact of the Mountain Valley Pipeline has been devastating and it is important that we uplift our resilient communities, what they have been through and their courageous strength throughout this collection.

Come on out for our first Collection Day on Sunday May 17th from 2PM-6PM. Bring your favorite MVP memories, photos, merch, mementos and a potluck dish! We will have an on site scanner and photographer to document your artifacts.

If you're not able to make it, email us your artifacts at [email protected]