In eastern Kentucky, however ... now comes from banking and other investments rather than from coal exlusively. Perry Country is almost entirely non-union, and the operators have used a maze ...

Jimmy Carter signed the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which changed the coal industry, reducing the ...

Harlan County, Ky., has a long history ... distinction between areas where coal is mined and those where it isn’t. In Harlan County, the archetype of coal country, Republicans have not had ...

Over several days in late July 2022, complexes of “training” thunderstorms — meaning they came one after another like train cars — rolled through Eastern Kentucky, pouring out a ...

Getting rid of the legacy coal ash deposits from ... With lawsuits pending around the country trying to stop the EPA from enforcing the rule, Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative asked a federal ...