A collaborative effort involving The Nature Conservancy (TNC), its Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership, Sun Tribe Development, and ENGIE is set to revitalize 17 former coal mining sites across ...

As the Trump administration pushes to expand coal mining, advocates warn that loosening regulations could put miners' health at risk. Justin Hicks of the Appalachia Mid South Newsroom reports.

Ramaco Resources Inc. says its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase of up to $100 million of shares of the ...

In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, fog hovers over a mountaintop as a cut out of a coal miner stands at a memorial to local miners killed on the job in Cumberland, Ky. For over a century, life in Central ...

Any moron knows there is no such thing as clean coal. Anyone who has seen a photograph of a miner leaving work knows there is no such thing as clean coal. Anyone who has followed an overloaded coal ...

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

There has been a resurgence of black lung disease, also known as Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), in recent years among miners in the central Appalachian coalfields. Long considered an affliction ...

Mine Safety and Health Administration pick Wayne Palmer will get a committee vote Thursday. Environmental and Appalachian advocacy groups are demanding a full Senate hearing — and not just a vote — to ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Last year, I moved to Kentucky—not to escape the chaos of California, but to build something better. I wanted to be somewhere people still ...