Neil Berch, a political science professor at West Virginia University, agrees state officials made a conscious effort not to associate the Elk River spill with the coal industry as a whole.

Junior Walk of Coal River Mountain Watch in Naoma, West Virginia, prepares his drone to fly near a reclaimed surface mine in Edwight. Roger May/The Guardian ...

Paula Jean Swearengin, the daughter of a coal miner, is calling out West Virginia's fossil-fuel industry in an insurgent campaign for the U.S. Senate × Skip to main content ...

West Virginia’s coal consumption has remained nearly steady over the last decade – going from a 98% share in the state’s power generation in 2001 to nearly 89% in 2020, according to the EIA.

BRITTANY PATTERSON, BYLINE: For more than 250 years, the mineral synonymous with West Virginia - coal - has been mined from the rugged mountains that surround this 88-mile-long river aptly called ...

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, walks under a sign urging miners to work safely at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National ...

TORNADO, W.Va. — When somebody suggestion 30 years ago an outing on West Virginia’s Coal River the reaction would have been along the same lines of an outing on the county landfill.

The Coal Industry Extracted a Steep Price From West Virginia. Now Natural Gas Is Leading the State Down the Same Path. “It’s déjà vu for the people who sat here 130 years ago and gave away ...

An article last Sunday about proposed mountaintop mining at Coal River Mountain in West Virginia referred incorrectly to a court-brokered compromise in January on a planned wind farm in Greenbrier ...

How West Virginia's Coal Country Could Get a Clean-Energy Makeover Published Apr 04, 2024 at 9:20 AM EDT Updated Apr 04, 2024 at 9:29 AM EDT ...

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and ...

West Virginia’s coal consumption has remained nearly steady over the last decade – going from a 98% share in the state’s power generation in 2001 to nearly 89% in 2020, according to the EIA.