A $60 million debt load, hundreds of layoffs, and a fire-sale auction brought down one of Appalachia’s last major coal strongholds. The coal company that once controlled Eastern Kentucky’s largest ...

A new study shows that rates for black lung disease in Appalachia are surging. At the same time, the Trump administration is putting regulations that could reduce miners’ exposure to the dust ...

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 ...

Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn't need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 funeral programs, all for ...

Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 funeral programs, all for ...

W e are headed down into the coal mine, sixteen of us huddled tight in the cage. The walls of the mine shaft peek through diamond-shaped holes in a metal grate. We zoom past steel wall supports, pipes ...

In a place where "all we've got is coal," residents search for another way to survive Superintendent Jackie Ratliff, a coal miner of 25 years, walks towards a pile of coal waiting to be shipped at a ...

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 believed in work, community, and country. You feel that ...