The consistently elevated ionic strength associated with surface coal mines has been implicated in extirpating sensitive taxa throughout many Appalachian streams. We quantified secondary production at ...

The banjo plays a major role in the folk music tradition of Appalachia, and when coal mining arrived in the region in the late 1800s, it inspired many songs. A concert of American coal mining songs in ...

The U.S. is dotted with piles of coal refuse, the waste produced from coal mining and processing ... it could create jobs that were lost in Appalachia with the downturn of the coal industry.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Center for Biological Diversity and Appalachian Voices today sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for ...

(The Center Square) — Even though federal money to reclaim mine lands in Appalachia ... coal fields absolutely blanket the ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and allies sued the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to protect endangered ...