Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played ...

Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in last week’s devastating and deadly flooding in eastern Kentucky and ...

Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal — an extractive mining process that uses explosives to clear forests and scrape soil in order to ...