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West Virginia

The Nestor farm in Taylor County, where methane from a coal mine below is being vented in a tall white pipe next to the back porch. Mining dried up the farm's water well, which the Nestors used to water their cattle, a lawsuit claims. Credit: James Bruggers

Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families

By James Bruggers
Views of a radically altered natural environment in southern West Virginia due to extensive mountain top removal coal mining and logging. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Soaring West Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over the State’s Devotion to Coal Power

By Marianne Lavelle
Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline lie on wooden blocks on Aug. 31, 2022 in Bent Mountain, Virginia. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pressing Safety Concerns, Opponents of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Gear Up for the Next Round of Battle

By Phil McKenna
Climate activists demonstrate outside as the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case of West Virginia vs. EPA on Monday. Credit: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for NRDC

Conservative Justices Express Some Support for Limiting Biden’s Ability to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Marianne Lavelle

Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe

By James Bruggers
Chris Rowe, an unemployed Blackjewel coal miner, mans a blockade of the railroad tracks that lead to the mine where he once worked on Aug. 24, 2019 in Cumberland, Kentucky. More than 300 miners in Harlan County unexpectedly found themselves unemployed when Blackjewel declared bankruptcy and shut down their mining operations. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

A Bankruptcy Judge Lets Blackjewel Shed Coal Mine Responsibilities in a Case With National Implications

By James Bruggers
Unemployed Blackjewel coal miner David Pratt holds his daughter Willow as he walks across railroad tracks that lead to one of the company's mines near Cumberland, Kentucky in 2019. Blackjewel miners found themselves unemployed when the company declared bankruptcy and the workers' final paychecks bounced, leading them to blockade the tracks to prevent the train carrying the mine's final shipment of coal from leaving until they were paid their wages. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Blackjewel’s Bankruptcy Filing Is a Harbinger of Trouble Ahead for the Plummeting Coal Industry

By James Bruggers
Threaded drilling pipes are stacked at a hydraulic fracturing site owned by EQT Corp. located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Decade Into the Fracking Boom, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Haven’t Gained Much, a Study Says

By James Bruggers
Coal is loaded onto a truck at a mine on Aug. 26, 2019 near Cumberland, Kentucky. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Coal Communities Across the Nation Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power

By James Bruggers

After Deadly Floods, West Virginia Created a Resiliency Office. It’s Barely Functioning.

By Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Mountaineer coal plant

Cash Shortfall at CCS Plant Highlights Lack of Carbon Price

By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News
Geothermal power plant

West Virginia Considering Geothermal Future

By Maria Gallucci

Study: Gas Drilling Fells 1,000 Trees in W. Va. Forest

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Pro Publica

W.Va. Senate Candidate Takes "Dead Aim" on Carbon Trading

By Elizabeth McGowan

King Coal Looms Large Over West Virginia Senate Race, Climate Legislation

By Elizabeth McGowan

West Virginia Coal Industry $100 Million Budget Drain, Report Says

By Stacy Feldman

Sen. Byrd Rebukes Massey Energy Over Coal Mine Disaster, Questions Safety Practices

By SolveClimate Staff

Sen. Byrd: Rigid Mindsets Pose Greatest Threat to Coal's Future

By SolveClimate Staff

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