By Russell Coleman and JB McCuskey Special to NKyTribune America needs coal. For generations, our nation has tapped into coal ...

The story illustrates the contrast between their past in the mountains and their uncertain future in the city. Keywords Appalachia, coal mining, family, transition, urban life, Cincinnati ...

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest ...

Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understanding of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia, West Virginia This is the ... the tragedy of Mountaintop Coal Mining (MTR) on Kayford Mountain in West ...

The legacy of coal is not beautiful nor clean. Coal destroys lives. It's time to move on from an industry that exploits people and our planet.

Home Funeral would become one of Shelby Lee Adams’ best-known portraits of Appalachian life ... or fall apart and green mountains crumble after years of coal mining. Coal dust feels omnipresent ...

The same sites are targeted by mountaintop removal mining, which uses explosives that blast apart mountains to access coal seams. More than 500 mountains and 1.4 million acres of forest in Appalachia ...

I was born in Appalachia. I am proud of my mountain heritage ... There is no safe way to mine coal. There is no clean way to mine, transport, burn and dispose of coal. Not now.