And so it's odd that Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, who's running in the Republican primary for Tennessee governor, would tell a small group of environmentalists, as he did recently, that no coal companies ...

July 8 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said it permitted a proposed coal mine in Claiborne County, Tennessee on Tuesday under an expedited process aimed at accelerating federal environmental ...

A mountaintop near Cumberland, Kentucky, remains scarred after it was strip mined in search of coal. Many mining companies walked away without remediating the land after filing for bankruptcy. Now a ...

It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a pocket of mountainous land on the Kentucky border. A permit for a new mine hasn’t been issued since ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter. It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a pocket of ...

It looked for a while like the coal mining era was over in the Clearfork Valley of East Tennessee, a pocket of mountainous land on the Kentucky border. A permit for a new mine hasn’t been issued since ...