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Posted on April 19, 2019April 24, 2019 Appalachian economies black lung disease climate change just transitions post-coal energy renewal U.S. Congress

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...

Posted on September 26, 2018 awareness climate change environmental heroes post-coal energy renewal solar power

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...

Posted on January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 awareness birds climate change environmental heroes interior department invasive species native forest restoration post-coal energy renewal river/waterway health U.S. Forest Service

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...

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Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >
Black lung disease strikes 1 in 5 longtime coal miners in Central Appalachia April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Strike up a conversation in southeastern Kentucky and it likely will be with somebody whose father, uncle, brother, son or grandfather has died of black lung disease. A 21st century resurgence of what’s also called coal workers’ pneumoconiosis has alarmed health experts. The fatal disease now afflicts one in five coal miners who has spent… Read more >
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