Two former state and federal mining regulators ... and areas of West Virginia and Virginia, flooded by torrential rains have for decades been heavily logged and strip-mined for coal—land-use ...

Hatfield, a retired coal miner ... an old Subaru along back roads in West Virginia and flying drones to peer down on the gray moonscapes created by strip mining. With a black Glock strapped ...

West Coast cities are largely to blame for the destruction of this landscape. Workers at the Rosebud Mine load coal onto a conveyor belt, which carries the planet-wrecking fuel to a power plant in ...

Strip mining ... coal for more than a decade. Nearly half of the zombie mines in Kentucky were located in one eastern Kentucky jurisdiction—Pike County, which borders Virginia and West Virginia.

The barren bedrock is often unsuitable for agriculture, and several attempts to build on old strip ... West Virginia. The group is part of a project that plans to put a solar farm on old coal mine ...

“I’m excited for what [the plant] can do for the economy here in West Virginia ... the United Mine Workers of America. Malhotra, an immigrant whose father worked at a coal mine in India ...

The US President has consistently made claims that may sound believable, but on inspection have little basis in fact – and one of his assertions last week, about reviving America’s dying coal ...

The tiny West Virginia village of Colfax is surrounded by a coal mine. Underfoot ... was promising to cooperate with the United Mine Workers of America and keep more miners at work, a popular ...

A rich history of a bygone era in Anderson County is on display in the town of Rocky Top, originally known as Coal Creek. A ...

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The U.S. Mine ... coal producing state with just two MSHA facilities. There also are four offices slated to close in Pennsylvania; two apiece in California, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas and West ...

But West Virginia ... heart of coal country, in providing lasting alternative employment to mining, it has the potential to be transformative in driving an energy transition across America.