Beyond Lip Service: Why can’t Congress fund an Rx for Appalachian coal country?
WHITESBURG, Ky.—Clinton Sanders can never gulp quite enough air. At night, he is tethered to an oxygen machine. And his constant daytime companion is a...
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In-depth exploration of the intersection of nature, labor and energy. .
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...
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...