by Andrew Chandler | Apr 4, 2018 |
As the US coal industry winds down, does it have enough money set aside to clean up the vast pits, walls and broken mountains left behind? A Climate Home News investigation has found the answer is no. Particularly in Appalachia, the land, water and health of mining...
by Andrew Chandler | Apr 4, 2018 |
Few politicians have bound themselves more tightly to the fortunes of coal miners than West Virginia governor Jim Justice. Alongside his son, James Justice III, Justice owns a coal empire spanning dozens of mining companies across Appalachia. Under his watch,...
by Andrew Chandler | Apr 4, 2018 |
Eleven generations of Dustin White’s family have lived in West Virginia. Many of them were buried in a cemetery now surrounded by a massive mountaintop removal coal mine. The Twilight mine, which flattened and stripped an expanse of heavily-forested mountains covering...
by Andrew Chandler | Apr 4, 2018 |
The bottom unexpectedly fell out of the US coal industry in 2015 and 2016, as mining companies accounting for nearly half the country’s production declared bankruptcy one after another. The industry’s major players have since rebuilt their finances, but the shake-up...
by Andrew Chandler | Apr 4, 2018 |
Trump-era budget cuts will leave the office that oversees the clean-up of the nation’s coal mines unable to do its job, according to an official who headed up the division under Barack Obama. Donald Trump’s administration has proposed to slash $130 million from the...
