The Nature Conservancy (TNC) will build 17 renewable energy projects on former Appalachian coal mines in the US, it announced ...

The projects will be developed by Sun Tribe Development and utility ENGIE across the US states of Virginia, Tennessee and ...

The U.S. is dotted with piles of coal refuse, the waste produced from coal mining and processing ... it could create jobs that were lost in Appalachia with the downturn of the coal industry.

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

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

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

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates remain substantially higher, especially in certain areas of Central ...

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 ...