A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

“Given that we are part of Appalachia and Appalachia is in our ... Ramaco Resources, which operates coal mines in Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, supplies coal to the project and hopes ...

In Central Appalachia, an estimated one in five tenured coal miners has black lung disease. The condition reduces life expectancy by an average of 12 years and makes it a “struggle to get ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

It goes back to the coal mining history and the hard-working traditions of Appalachia. A lot of great musicians like my grandfather who is a gospel singer who traveled up and down the mountains.

Doctors say 16 coal miners have suffered burns and injuries from a methane gas fire at a coal mine in southern Poland ...

polluting coal mines plaguing the West and Appalachia. H.R. 167 mirrors legislation that LaHood introduced last year, dubbed the “Community Reclamation Partnerships Act,” which the House ...