The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company were some of the largest employers of convict laborers. Coal mines were dangerous for all workers. Collapsing mines, ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is constructing what it calls the "Kingston Energy Complex" to replace the coal plant ...

This includes seven in Kentucky, which would leave the fifth-leading coal producing ... Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming. Also under consideration for closure are the Office of Surface Mining ...

The Department of the Interior today announced the disbursement of more than $13 million in grants to support the reclamation ...

A copy of this photo hangs in the Coal Creek Miners Museum on Main Street in Rocky Top. It was also one of the photos included in the Anderson County Tennessee Bicentennial calendar in 1996.