Kentucky is our roots, Kentucky is our home,” Marotta said. “This community, this state is so important to use, so being here ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

the process of blowing up mountains in Appalachia to scoop out the last tiny seams of dirty coal, ain’t new. Nor is the devastating strip-mining of coal limited to the Appalachian coalfields.

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 ...

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 story of Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys reminds us of the importance of education, and the way dreams can lift us all, ...

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.