There are important distinctions in cancer diagnoses and deaths among different regions of Appalachia, with certain areas ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

polluting coal mines plaguing the West and Appalachia. H.R. 167 mirrors legislation that LaHood introduced last year, dubbed the “Community Reclamation Partnerships Act,” which the House ...

A Biden administration rule lowered the amount of toxic dust workers in mines and quarries can be exposed to, but a lawsuit and new Congress could upend it.