A mountaintop near Cumberland, Kentucky, remains scarred after it was strip mined in search of coal. Many mining companies walked away without remediating the land after filing for bankruptcy. Now a ...

It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a pocket of mountainous land on the Kentucky border. A permit for a new mine hasn’t been issued since ...

July 8 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said it permitted a proposed coal mine in Claiborne County, Tennessee on Tuesday under an expedited process aimed at accelerating federal environmental ...

ROCKY TOP, Tenn. (WVLT) - From the campaign trail to the national news, tariffs seem to be talked about everywhere, even the ...

DENVER — Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump’s push to expand U.S.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter. It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a pocket of ...