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As a result of mechanization, market competition and a decreased demand for coal, Kentucky employed fewer than 5,000 coal miners last year, according to a state dashboard. Today, this part of Appalachia has the country’s largest concentration of coal mine and power plant closures in the country, according to a federal group working to ...
Over a week in July 2022, more than a foot of rainfall came down on Eastern Kentucky bringing a deluge of flood waters that displaced thousands of people and killed more than 40. A recent study published by Kentucky’s former top geologist suggests environmental damage from surface coal mining worsened the deadly disaster, perhaps significantly.
Kentucky has a long history of coal mining disasters. These are 5 of the deadliest. A road leads to the area where two workers are trapped inside a collapsed coal preparation plant in...
The gradual disappearance of coal mining in Letcher County, Ky., brought a dramatic reduction in tax revenue, leaving much of its infrastructure crumbling long before the flood. Credit...
Generations of Americans relied on the coal mined in Kentucky to forge the steel, heat the furnaces and power the homes of this country. The nation’s reliance on coal, however, is coming to an end, and the communities that once produced it are struggling to adapt.
Compacted dirt, destroyed mountaintops and deforestation in eastern Kentucky have often been left ignored by the coal companies that mined there, despite legal requirements that they...
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law changed that by infusing the abandoned mine fund with over $11 billion to clean up the majority of the remaining known abandoned coal mine sites nationwide. To ...
In 2022, Kentucky’s coal production had fallen by 65 percent and its ranking fell to fifth. And, the state had made almost no investment in wind and solar, so it remained at the bottom. But it...
A recent study published by Kentucky’s former top geologist suggests environmental damage from surface coal mining worsened the deadly disaster, perhaps significantly.
Between the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, federal agencies set aside $672 billion to transform energy communities like those in Appalachia, according to the Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization.