Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in last month's devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and ...

TREMONT – More than 50 residents turned out Wednesday for a public meeting and hearing on three pending applications for mining and reclamation work in Frailey, Hegins and Porter townships. Among the ...

Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region still reeling from last summer’s deadly inundations — which social justice advocates say were exacerbated by the ...

The coal mining company Luminant, which owns Three Oaks Mine east of Elgin, has submitted a final application to release itself from land reclamation obligations. According to a letter submitted to ...

Until three years ago, Sam Gilbert’s neighborhood in this secluded mountain nook consisted of vegetation, salamanders in the creek and lush mountain peaks. Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered ...

— Even as the nation’s demand for coal tumbles, the Trump administration is considering a permit that would allow strip mining on protected ridgelines in Campbell County's Cumberland Plateau over the ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since the ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region ...