Blair and two of his crew members — Jacob Frazier and Carlos Villanueva — document their connection to blue-collar work in and around the Appalachian coal industry, and they reflect on ...

As President Trump pledges to revive “beautiful” coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...

one of three projects across Appalachian coal country that were collectively awarded a total of $300 million in March. A project in eastern Kentucky received $81 million and another in central ...

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. This poetic, humble, and entrancing film is the journey of a coal miner's ...

according to the National Institutes of Health — with the ways our reckless use of natural resources placed Appalachia's coal country right in its bull's-eye. Coal is one of the dirtiest fossil ...

In the documentary King Coal, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Appalachia native Elaine McMillion Sheldon examines a part of the country deeply embedded, one might say, in the charred rock.

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