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

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 ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Appalachian Voices today sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect highly ...

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.

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 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 ...