Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment

"New Website Provides Info on Coal Ash Across the South," Knoxville MetroPulse, 12/11/12, click for PDF

"Power Play: TVA's Plans for Gallatin Plant Draw Ire from Environmentalist," Knoxville MetroPulse, 11/14/12, click for PDF

"Henry A. Stokes: Fund Could Save Tennesseans Energy and Money," Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/27/12, click for PDF

"An Old Time Tradition: Duncan Family Barbeque Continues," Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10/24/12, click for the PDF

"SOCM Hosts First Maury County Unity Day," Spring Hill Informer, 9/24/12, click for PDF

"Community Unity Night," Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 08/29/12, click for PDF

"Editorial: State Needs Citizen Input on Rules for Hydrofracturing," Knoxville News Sentinel, 07/07/12, click for PDF

Groups Advocate "American Clean Energy Agenda," Tennessee Report, 06/28/12, click for PDF

Keep Greenhaw Green Fights Rock Quarry, The Sewanee Mountain Messenger, 06/01/12, click for PDF

Earth Day Highlights Monthlong Awareness Event at Tennessee, Knoxville News Sentinel, 04/21/12, click for PDF

Local Groups to Host Trayvon Martin Rally, Columbia Daily Herald, 04/11/12, click for PDF

New Era of Deep Coal Mining Looms on Walden's Ridge, Chattanooga Times Free Press, 04/08/12, click for PDF

Forum Held to Discuss Possible Maury County Metro Government, News Channel 5 Nashville, click for PDF, click for video

Metro Forum Examines Pros, Cons, Columbia Daily Herald, 02/29/2012, click for PDF

Coal Mining Prospects on Walden's Ridge, News Channel 9 Chattanooga, 02/28/2012, click for PDF, click for video clip

Maury County Votes on Metro Government, Nashville Public Radio, 02/27/12, click for PDF

Officials Set to Speak at Metro Forum, Columbia Daily Herald, 02/27/12, click for PDF

Coal Mining May Return to Walden's Ridge, Chattanooga Times Free Press, 02/22/12, click for PDF

Sewanee Coal Seam Mining Ban Introduced to Tennessee Legislature, Nooga.com, 02/5/12, click for PDF

Residents Say "No Dump", Crossville Chronicle, 02/12/2012, click for PDF

Proposed Landfill Brings Concerns for Crab Orchard Residents, WBIR, 01/28/2012, click for PDF

Public Hearing Friday on Crab Orchard Landfill, AP News, 01/27/2012, click for PDF

State cites Premium Coal for Water Quality Permit Violation, Knoxville News Sentinel, 01/24/2012, click for PDF

Notice Sent on Premium Coal Discharge in New River, Canadian Business, 01/24/2012, click for PDF

Clean Water Support Urged: Letter to the Editor by Patrick Morales, The Maryville Daily Times, 01/17/2012, click for PDF

Coal Tainted Slurry Hits TN's New River from Premium Coal Co., The Tennessean, 01/09/2012, click for PDF

State, Feds Probe Coal Plant Discharge Into New River, Knoxville News Sentinel, 01/09/2012, click for PDF

Has Controversial Coal Baron Don Blankenship Made a New Home in East Tennessee, MetroPulse, 12/21/2011, click for the PDF

Levis Receive AARP Award for Community Service (featuring SOCM members Tom and Barbara Levi), Chattanooga Times Free Press, 11/16/11, click for the PDF

Why Rural Counties Should Tax the 1%, MetroPulse, 11/16/11, click for the PDF

Activists Sue National Coal over Campbell County Pollution, MetroPulse, 11/16/11, click for the PDF

Lawsuits Filed Against Coal Company Violating Clean Water Act, EcoWatch, 11/8/11, click for the PDF

Environmentalists Sue Coal Company in Knoxville, The Knoxville News Sentinel, 11/8/11, Click for the PDF

Walk for Justice Brief, Jackson Sun, 11/11/2011, click for the PDF

Rogero, Padgett Debate Green Energy, Other Topics One Week Before Election, The Knoxville Journal, 11/2/11 click for the PDF

Knoxville Mayoral Candidate Stake Environmental Positions at Forum, The Knoxville News Sentinel, 11/2/11, click for the PDF

Meeting Tells Voters of New Photo ID Law (member Sammie Jackson quoted), Jackson Sun, 11/2/11, click for the PDF

Save Our Community Day Brings Resident, The Jackson Sun, 10/09/2011, click for the PDF

An Ice dragnet in Bedford County Targeting Latinos wasn't subltle- which may have been the point, Nashville Scene, 09/26/2011, click for the PDF

Panel Wants Time to Study Landfill, Crossville Chronicle, 08/24/2011, click for the PDF

Letters: Mountaintop removal destruction for profit, Knoxville News Sentinel, 05/26/11, click for the PDF

Pitching natural gas, Chattanooga Times Free Press, 05/20/11, click for the PDF

Oil, gas board's makeup bashed, Tennessean, 05/18/11, click for the pdf

TN, WV processes differ when declaring land off-limits to mining, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, 04/12/11, click for the PDF

National Coal sued over Zeb Mountain compliance, Knoxville News Sentinel, 04/06/11, click for the PDF

Fourth poorest Tennessee county is cursed with 49 percent tax increase, Tennessean, 03/11/11, click for the PDF

Meeting on coal surface mining reviews ridgetop plan, Knoxville News Sentinel, 03/11/11, click for the PDF

Immigrants feel new law's chill, Shelbyville Times Gazette, 03/09/11, click for the PDF

Tennesseans rally for safer gas drilling, Facing South, 02/23/11, click for the PDF

Oil and gas debate runs hot, Knoxville News Sentinel, 02/22/11, click for the PDF

Groups target 'fracking': Environmentalists want new rules on gas extraction, Knoxville News Sentinel, 02/22/11, click for the PDF

Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment moving office to Knox, Knoxville News Sentinel, 02/01/11, click for the PDF

SOCM Moves to Knoxville, Humphrey on the Hill, 01/31/11, click for the PDF

Public upset about lack of information at 127 S. meeting, Crossville Chronicle, 01/25/11, click for the PDF