Kentucky produced 2.3% more coal in the fourth quarter of last year than in the prior year, according to the state Energy and Environment Cabinet.

Kentucky fell to the nation's No. 7 coal producer in 2024, according to the federal government's annual coal report. Kentucky produced 24.3 million tons last year, down 14% from 2023. Wyoming and West ...

Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

For generations, coal communities helped power our nation. Yet across America, those communities are now at risk. Hazardous abandoned coal mine lands – relics of the pre-1977 unregulated coal mining ...

When John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to come by in his corner of northeastern Kentucky. A giant iron and steel mill routinely needed maintenance ...

A sign outside an underground mine tour in Harlan County reads: "If you don’t like coal, don’t use electricity.” (Scott Tong/Here & Now) This story is part of our series Asking Appalachia: Coal, Trump ...

Reclamation work is scheduled for a former mine in Virginia that is visible from Black Mountain, the highest point in Kentucky, in Harlan Count, seen here on Friday, January 27, 2023 Ryan C. Hermens ...