Bold Appalachia is part of the Bold Alliance, a network of small but mighty groups protecting land and water that grew out of the work of Bold Nebraska, who formed an unlikely alliance of landowners, Tribal Nations, and environmental advocates to fight the Keystone XL pipeline. Bold Appalachia is currently working to help organize landowners and citizens who […]

(Note: Bold Alliance is no longer active as Bold Iowa in the state of Iowa.) Bold Iowa under the Bold Alliance — led by state director Ed Fallon — was launched in 2016 with a focus on organizing landowners who were facing eminent domain and seizure of their land for Energy Transfer Partners’ proposed Dakota […]

Citizens of Virginia and West Virginia have been asked over and over to sacrifice their safety, security, health, and regional economy for dangerous fossil fuel projects that boost the profits of corporations and their wealthy investors, while leaving us to bear the costs. Now, a consortium of out-of-state gas companies is again demanding we subsidize […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 8, 2017 Contact: Carolyn Reilly, Bold Alliance, 540.488.4358, carolyn@boldalliance.org Bold Alliance, Four Corners Farm Host ‘Pickin’ for Perriello’ Fundraiser for Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Rocky Mount, VA – Bold Alliance and Four Corners Farm have joined together to host a fundraising event for Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate, Tom Perriello. Four Corners Farm is […]

(Note Bold Alliance is no longer active as Bold Oklahoma in the state of Oklahoma.) Bold Oklahoma under the Bold Alliance — led by organizer Mekasi Camp Horinek — was launched in 2016 to bring together an unlikely alliance of farmers, ranchers, Tribal Nations, urban and rural communities in a state of diverse culture. In […]

Bold Alliance filed a motion on April 10 that asks the Nebraska Public Service Commission to reconsider the hearing officer’s order regarding intervention during its review of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline project. The PSC’s order lumps all the “natural resources” intervenors together and severely limits their ability to present evidence. The “natural resources” intervenor […]

For Immediate Release: March 24, 2017 Legal Experts, Landowners, Tribal Organizations and Green Groups Vow To Stop KXL Again A Recording of Today’s Call Is Available Here Washington, DC – On the heels of the Trump administration’s ill-advised signing of the federal permit on Keystone XL Pipeline, legal minds, landowners and environmental advocates outlined the […]

The Washington Post reports that President Trump said in a speech at a fundraiser in Washington on Tuesday that he ordered National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs, to tell TransCanada drop its $15 billion claim against the U.S. government under NAFTA for losses suffered from its rejected Keystone XL […]

Sign: Stop the rubber-stamp for pipelines through Virginia’s waters. The Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is aiming to rubber-stamp permit applications for “utlilty” projects like the proposed Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines, and eliminate any state-sponsored environmental review of simiar large-scale projects that are abusing eminent domain for private gain, and threatening […]

Bold Alliance president Jane Kleeb appeared on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” on March 12 along with Standing Rock activist Phyllis Young, former EPA head of environmental justice Mustafa Ali, and NextGen head Tom Steyer, to discuss the Native Nations March in D.C. and new EPA head Scott Pruitt.