ABSTRACT
This case study explores the rhetorical tactics and strategies of grassroots environmental efforts to oppose the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in Appalachia. I emphasize the use of epideictic rhetoric by POWHR in their advocacy for climate justice
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1. For a list of award winners, including the award for best website, refer to the Appalachian Studies Association awards page. (http://appalachianstudies.org/awards/pastrecipients/award-by-year.php).
2. Per POWHR’s newsletter: “The Violation Vigil Project was a collaboration between 7 Directions of Service, Appalachian Voices, ARTivism Virginia, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, EarthFolk, Food & Water Watch, Friends of Buckingham County, Virginia, Green New Deal VA, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Protect Our Water Heritage Rights, Repairers of the Breach, RVA Interfaith Climate Justice League, S.A.V.E., Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, Virginia Organizing, & Wild Virginia” (Tuttle, Citation2021).
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Savannah Paige Murray
Savannah Paige Murray is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the Department of English at Appalachian State University. Her work focuses on grassroots environmental rhetoric and the pursuit of climate and environmental justice.