Let There Be Sunlight: Switch to solar keeps historic Appalachian coal camp on energy map

Let There Be Sunlight: Switch to solar keeps historic Appalachian coal camp on energy map

Benham, Ky—Black rock buried thousands of feet under the Cumberland Mountains might have put Benham on the energy map, but sunlight beaming from 93 million...

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Plugged In: Hyattsville, Md., police officer advances electric vehicles

WASHINGTON—Richard Hartnett’s official title at the Hyattsville Police Department might be sergeant, but it could just as easily be chief “EV”angelist. He has put his...

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Rx for Appalachia: Non-profit restoring native forests to mountains devastated by coal mining and logging

DURBIN, WEST VIRGINIA—Near the top of Cheat Mountain, bulldozer operator Bill Moore grimaces at the wreckage littering the steep slope below. It looks as if...