companies use explosives and heavy equipment to blast and dig away dirt and rock to retrieve coal from underground seams. Production from underground mining in Eastern Kentucky topped surface ...

Owners of large northern mines with wide coal seams who had sufficient capital, found it relatively easy to install heavy machinery and pay their miners the union scale. In eastern Kentucky ...

Senate Bill 89 would remove Kentucky's authority over numerous streams ... SB 89 is being promoted as a win for industry, particularly coal, but the consequences would be disastrous.

The Kentucky Senate on Friday voted 30-to-5 to pass a controversial bill that would benefit the coal industry by making it easier to pollute more water sources without getting in trouble with ...

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in Harlan County because the first aid available in the mine was inadequate to ...

Yellow-spotted woodland salamanders are found in shale and sandstone rock faces in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The same sites are targeted by mountaintop removal mining, which ...