fewer than 3,900 Kentuckians can find work in coal mines today, and Kentucky’s formerly company-owned coal towns are largely abandoned. Sometimes, abandoned mines can find new life as tourist ...

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 ...

US solar developer Savion has commissioned the Martin County Solar Project (MCSP) in the US state of Kentucky, its first to be designed and built on a reclaimed coal mine. MCSP is a 111MW project ...

A 111-MW solar power facility built on reclaimed land at a former coal mine site in Kentucky has entered commercial operation. The Martin County Solar Project (MCSP), developed, built, owned and ...

Kentucky’s newest solar farm is up and running in Martin County. The Martin County Solar Project is an 850-acre plot built on the old Martiki coal mine. With over 214,000 double-sided solar ...

A 111-MW solar power facility built on reclaimed land at a former coal mine site in Kentucky has entered commercial operation. The Martin County Solar Project (MCSP), developed, built, owned and ...

Still, the law reduced the environmental damage of coal mining, which was probably worse in Kentucky than anywhere else and included a severance tax that financed the reclamation of abandoned ...

January 14, 2025 at 11:06 a.m. ·3 min read A 111-MW solar power facility built on reclaimed land at a former coal mine site in Kentucky has entered commercial operation. The Martin County Solar ...