She saw many safety improvements over the years, and always felt grateful that she could call the local Mine Safety and ...

The Radical Teacher No. 102, Summer 2015 Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understa... Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understanding of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia, West Virginia This ...

DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

The only Kentucky location for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ... Kentucky and other parts of central Appalachia, one in five coal miners suffer from it, according ...

A team of locals in Athens County is trying to make former mine land economically productive again. Instead of harvesting ...

U.S. coal mining employed 53,000 people last year ... the most accessible—and therefore ­cheapest—coal reserves in Appalachia are mostly mined out. “Trump is not going to bring all the ...

They worry that this new gold rush will do untold damage to the ocean's food web and other complex natural systems. What mountaintop-removal coal mining has done in Appalachia, deep-sea mining has the ...

Locals who speak up against mountaintop removal are harassed by coal thugs who kill their pets, threaten their children, and try to run them off roads. Mountaintop removal perpetuates poverty. It's ...

It operates through the following segments: Illinois Basin, Appalachia, Minerals, and Other & Corporate. The Illinois Basin segment is comprised of Webster County coal's Dotiki mining complex ...