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— Even as the nation’s demand for coal tumbles, the Trump administration is considering a permit that would allow strip mining on protected ridgelines in Campbell County's Cumberland Plateau over the ...

A five-year test programme on an innovative mining method that could potentially be used to access high-grade orebodies that are either too small or too deep to be mined economically using ...

DURING the last fifteen years, coal-mine operators have systematically destroyed a broad mountainous region lying within five states — Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Alabama. By a ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region ...