Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation A social justice group asks the Interior Department to review the adequacy of federal law as climate change supercharges storms and turns coal hollows into dangerous chutes of water. By James Bruggers
Can Appalachia Be Saved? Or Will ‘Worse and Worse’ Flooding Wash it Away? By Chris Kenning, Connor Giffin and James Bruggers
Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation By James Bruggers
With Epic Flooding in Eastern Kentucky, the State’s Governor Wants to Know ‘Why We Keep Getting Hit’ By James Bruggers
The Decline of Kentucky’s Coal Industry Has Produced Hundreds of Safety and Environmental Violations at Strip Mines By James Bruggers
Battered and Flooded by Increasingly Severe Weather, Kentucky and Tennessee Have a Big Difference in Forecasting By James Bruggers, Caroline Eggers
Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe By James Bruggers
Chemours’ Process for Curtailing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Produce Hazardous Air Pollutants in Louisville By James Bruggers, Phil McKenna
The EPA Proposes a Ban on HFC-23, the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Among Hydrofluorocarbons, by October 2022 By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers
Chemours Says it Will Dramatically Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Aiming for Net Zero by 2050 By Phil McKenna
Louisville’s Super-Polluting Chemical Plant Emits Not One, But Two Potent Greenhouse Gases By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers
A Single Chemical Plant in Louisville Emits a Super-Pollutant That Does More Climate Damage Than Every Car in the City By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers
Blackjewel’s Bankruptcy Filing Is a Harbinger of Trouble Ahead for the Plummeting Coal Industry By James Bruggers
Coal Communities Across the Nation Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power By James Bruggers
Senate 2020: Mitch McConnell Now Admits Human-Caused Global Warming Exists. But He Doesn’t Have a Climate Plan By James Bruggers
Video: Kentucky’s Primary Shows Environmental Justice is an Issue for Voters By Anna Belle Peevey, James Bruggers