As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...

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

The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.

This is one of the largest mountaintop ... Eastern Kentucky’s Starfire Mine has long been an economic foundation and cultural touchpoint for the region. Yet this type of coal mining makes ...

According to a press release, the mining permit for Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine in Wyoming County, an almost 600-acre mountaintop removal coal mine operated by the Justice family, ...

This coal policy will be centered around protecting water. It will prohibit mountaintop removal coal mining, prevent new open-pit coal mines in the foothills and require that any new mining must use ...

According to a press release, the mining permit for Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine in Wyoming County, an almost 600-acre mountaintop removal coal mine operated by the Justice family, ...

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 ...

Biden-era regulations on coal ash and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants would bring "harm to the economy," utilities ...