"F*** Donald Trump!" has become their new cheer. An American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) protest rally outside ...

The Kentucky Senate on Friday voted 30-to-5 to pass a controversial bill that would benefit the coal industry by making it ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping to limit the definition of “waters of the Commonwealth” protected under anti-pollution laws.

New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on a former coal strip mine in Hazard, Ky. As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find ...

The Nature Conservancy and the Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership are turning former Appalachian coal mines into clean ...

Senate Bill 89 now goes to the House. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet has too much authority to interfere with coal mining while carrying out its regulatory mission of protecting water ...

“The MCEL is a new sister database that focuses exclusively on metallurgical coal and highlights which companies are planning new mines or extensions,” she said. As the Paris Agreement marks ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky ...