In the heart of Appalachia, where coal mining has shaped both the land and the lives of its people, a movement is taking root to restore what was lost. The Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiati ...

He coordinates a work-study crew of about 60 people, mostly first-generation college students from rural Appalachia ... is the layout of an underground coal mine. Each one is different.

The project overlaid maps from the Army Corps of Engineers ... quickly through that mined environment,” he said. Appalachian coal mining has also left another imprint on the region’s mountain ...

The project overlaid maps from the Army Corps of Engineers ... quickly through that mined environment,” he said. Appalachian coal mining has also left another imprint on the region’s mountain ...

In some places like east Tennessee mining has stopped entirely. In other places like eastern Kentucky we’ve seen major drops in coal ... in Appalachia, even people who live around carbon offset ...

Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal—an extractive mining process that uses explosives to clear forests and scrape soil in order to ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Appalachian Voices today sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect highly ...