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 ...

Armed with bucketfuls of trees, volunteers scampered along a Leslie County mountaintop that looked more like the moon than a mountain. Rocks the size of fists went tumbling as shovels struck earth to ...

Two former mining regulators want an investigation into just how badly strip mining impacted the recent, deadly Eastern Kentucky floods. “If you get an area that has been strip mined, and the soil has ...

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 ...

On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a ...

Half a year after historic floods killed dozens in Eastern Kentucky, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is calling on federal officials to investigate the role of surface mining in those deaths, citing ...

It is not often that journalists confess they have run out of adjectives to describe an event, but two veterans who are covering the flooding in eastern Kentucky tell me they simply don’t have a ...

Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of ...

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 ...