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 ...

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 ...

An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly. With coal mining destroying the mountains that he loves, Jim Webb establishes Wiley’s Last Resort, a place for ...

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 ...

“With mining, there’s nothing on the mountain to hold the water back,” said Steve Peake, a resident of Neon, Kentucky whose home and property was damaged by the flooding. “We have strip mining in ...