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Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
WDBJ18d
Aristotle Jones visiting Pulaski to deliver Appalachian Soul
It goes back to the coal mining history and the hard-working traditions of Appalachia. A lot of great musicians like my grandfather who is a gospel singer who traveled up and down the mountains.
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WV groups urge shutdown of Monongahela coal haul road
South Fork Coal Company obtained a state mining permit in 2011 for its haul road. Willie Dodson, coal impacts program manager for the advocacy group Appalachian Voices, said the company falsely ...
Medscape14d
Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors Fuel Respiratory Health Disparities in Rural and Urban Areas
Research highlights how poor housing, pollution, and green spaces affect respiratory health, with rural and urban communities ...
100 Days in Appalachia5d
In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...
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Coal Mining stock videos and footage
Railroad tracks to Rail Station in small town Cumberland Maryland Rail line and train tracks through small town Cumberland, Maryland and Appalachian Mountains. coal mining stock videos & royalty-free ...
The Washington Post18d
Fantasy literature is bigger than ever. These books show why.
Bennie Mattox is gathering information about a string of deaths in a coal mine when ... and the mountain is waking up, angry that people are digging mines into its heart. Appalachian fantasy ...