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Meat feast 23 December Early this year, pioneering online gallery One Shot launched by selling oneofakind, museum quality prints from photographer Brian Finke to ...

Coal is cheap, plentiful and dirty as cheap as dirt, as plentiful as dirt, and as dirty as dirt since after all, coal is little more than dirt that burns ...

History of coal mining in southern Appalachia, and how it radically transformed the region.

Vanity Fair article examines mountaintop removal mining and its impact on the citizens of Appalachia. Includes photographs. By Michael Shnayerson.

But as the saying goes, the Stone Age didn''t end because we ran out of stone. We just found other ways to build stuff, and people made economic decisions to leave ...

Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service is designating critical habitat for three endangered plants found in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee This ...

If the water had traveled along the same path as the Melungeons, some might speculate that it had pooled into swimming holes for the lost colonists of Roanoke Island ...

I wrote last week about the new nonfiction book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by Vance, the Yale Law School graduate who grew up ...

From the Ashes explores the experiences of Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry, and what its future ...

Mar 20, 2015· Coal dust is a fine powdered form of coal, which is created by the crushing, grinding, or pulverizing of coal. Because of the brittle nature of coal, coal ...

The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon.

You show in "Country Boys" how this kind of poverty is lived, experienced and reinforced, at the level of individual families and relationships.

Energy Information Administration EIA Official Energy Statistics from the Government

Blowing Up the Top of Mountains. Then there''s a problem unique to Appalachia that might be driving up cancer rates in the region: coal mining.

For years and prior to the construction of the cogeneration plant, Sabic burned coal to generate steam used in the manufacture of a broad range of plastics including ...

The Big Idea. How Trump Could Shrink the Government (While Still Keeping the Good Stuff) Call it limitedgovernment liberalism, or compassionate conservatism ...

Like the hero of "October Sky,'''' I remember the shock that ran through America when the Russians launched Sputnik on Oct. 5, 1957. Like the residents of Coalwood, W ...

Many people think coal represents a bygone way of life and that America has moved on to safer and cleaner energy sources. On the contrary, coal provides roughly half ...

is the product of 14 local, state, and regional organizations across Appalachia that are working together to end mountaintop removal coal mining ...

Jan 18, 2014· NPR''s Pam Fessler was told that Eastern Kentuckians would be reluctant to talk because they were tired of being depicted as the poster children of the War ...

Coal is found in many of the lower 48 states of and throughout the rest of the world. Coal is mined out of the ground using various methods.

Blaming environmental regulations on the coal industry''s decline is like blaming online pirating for the shuttering of video stores. Yes, it certainly didn''t help ...
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