With more 100 partners already in the program, The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective makes it easy for potential new ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution ...

Neither coal companies nor government have a “plan B” for many Appalachian communities. Meet the young leaders determined to find one. Jonathan Blair March 8, 2023 ...

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So coal mining is one of the most dangerous jobs ever. ♪♪ -[Dr. Aysha] Old miners that I've talked to, they'll tell me stories about working in what they call low coal, which is 36 inches, so ...

Mining for new opportunities in Appalachia’s coal country. Over the last few decades, American energy companies have decreased their coal production, leaving thousands of miners without jobs.

CHARLESTON, W.Va.. — 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 ...

The U.S. is dotted with piles of coal refuse, the waste produced from coal mining and processing. ... it could create jobs that were lost in Appalachia with the downturn of the coal industry.

“King Coal” finds its purpose in this process, as a loose collection of segments covering different aspects of coal mining and culture in Appalachia crystallizes into a statement of hope for ...

Appalachian coal mining has also left another imprint on the region’s mountain communities: Widespread economic hardship as the industry has declined.

Himler Coal was the only known cooperatively-owned coal mine in Appalachia or anywhere else in the world. Martin Himler’s experience as a coal miner when he was a young man inspired him to pioneer a ...

If you’re a reader of Grist then you are almost certainly aware that the Obama Administration signaled a major shift yesterday in how mountaintop removal coal mining will be regulated. In brief ...