In Appalachian Ohio, when a coal-fired power plant shuts down, entire communities feel the aftershocks. At Ohio University's ...

Tom Bethell, dead at 86, dedicated his extraordinary journalistic and analytic skills to demand justice for coal miners and ...

Gone are the days of a booming coal industry, where entire towns were beholden to the mines ... As a result, many people in central Appalachia have been looking for the next big industry that ...

We took the Biden Administration to court to stop the radical overreach and anti-coal agenda. We even won key victories at ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of health agencies. Mining communities must now grapple with its disappearance.

The Trump administration and DOGE laid off 25 federal workers who were responsible for the one program America's coal miners ...

Decades of coal mining in the Appalachian region have impacted millions of acres of land, including over 4 million acres of formerly mined land in Central Appalachia alone. Abandoned mine lands ...

Their wives, sons and daughters who were denied a proper funeral for their loved ones, will tell you that there is no such thing as clean coal. I was born in Appalachia. I am proud of my mountain ...

"In Central Appalachia, it's a big deal," he says. "These are towns that basically were built around coal mining, and coal miners are like the heart and soul of this community and economic ...