If the process is licensed to companies that can manufacture graphite at a large scale, it could create jobs that were lost in Appalachia with the downturn of the coal industry. “The national ...

But the country’s shift to cleaner energy may be making it harder to do just that. A Scripps News investigation has found as many as 1,300 coal mining facilities across Appalachia that have been ...

Coal Country Welcome to Coal Country! Take a trip through the heart of the Appalachian coal fields. This fictional route is complete with a brand new Railroad, locomotives, rolling stock ...

Editorials Sharing needles fuels outbreak in Appalachia Whether it be willful ignorance for the sake of scoring political points or a genuine misunderstanding of the broad ... Don’t overlook ...

People tend to point its origins toward Giuseppe Argiro, a Sicilian immigrant who worked in West Virginia coal mines before ...

polluting coal mines plaguing the West and Appalachia. H.R. 167 mirrors legislation that LaHood introduced last year, dubbed the “Community Reclamation Partnerships Act,” which the House ...