A coal mine was the first to wreck the land ... Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip ...

A man has died following a mining accident that occurred this morning in Harrison County. Sean Donato, the assistant fire ...

New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on a former coal strip mine in Hazard, Ky. As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping to limit the definition of “waters of the Commonwealth” protected under anti-pollution laws.

The Nature Conservancy and the Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership are turning former Appalachian coal mines into clean ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

As I reported in an article published today, Mullins is one of many flood survivors that have relocated to new communities built on former coal strip mines that top the mountains surrounding her ...

The decision places numerous watersheds up and down the Rockies at permanent risk of environmental insults, including toxic coal dust, water contamination, strip mining, landscape destruction and ...