With massive coal reserves acting as a natural charcoal filter, West Virginia used to be famous ... by nearby mountaintop coal removal mining. Not only was mining taking away their charcoal ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

WILLIAMSON, WV (WOWK) – If you travel to the town of Williamson, West Virginia ... The coal for the building came from the ...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection pulled a mining permit for Bluestone Coal’s Poca surface mine in McDowell County, West Virginia. The mine is owned by Justice’s family ...

The narrow road winds its way like a snail trail through the isolated area between West Blocton ... Photos of the mining town can be viewed in the gallery above and at the Aldrich Coal Mine ...

When labor organizer Mother Jones arrived in a West Virginia coal town in 1901 ... Workers of America had successfully organized other mining operations in the U.S., but West Virginia remained ...

president of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. “The Forest Service failed to consider that converting a National Forest road to a heavy-use coal haul road would have direct environmental ...