Once the dominant source of energy in the United States, today, 401 coal units supply roughly 16 percent of the nation’s grid ...

New interior secretary quietly orders millions of acres of protected lands to be reviewed for potential oil, gas, uranium and ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

One of the most well-maintained mining villages is in Pennsylvania. Visitors can view houses that date to the 1850s and learn ...

A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

This month, we talked to Bob Yoho, the former president of West Virginia Writers who writes westerns and has been published ...