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

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...

The largest coal producer in the eastern United States will permanently close its Kentucky operation, representatives said. On Nov. 15, Alliance Resource Partners and its subsidiary, Excel Mining ...

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 ...

A dozen years ago eastern Kentucky enjoyed reasonable prosperity. Now, with heavy competition from oil and the large, highly mechanized coal mines, the operators of the small mines are squeezed ...

which covered 70,000 acres in Eastern Kentucky alone. The abandoned-mine-land law is also being used to finance water projects in areas of Kentucky affected by coal mining. Need a break?

Ashley Tackett Laferty, who represents a coal-producing region in eastern Kentucky ... a coal region in western Kentucky. Gooch comes from a coal mining family and previously worked in mines ...

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates ...

Many factors contribute to Eastern Kentucky’s cancer ... among people who live near surface mining, according to some epidemiological studies, which the coal industry disputes.