A bill that will loosen Kentucky's protections over groundwater and other important water resources passed in the state ...

A bill that will loosen Kentucky's protections over groundwater and other important water resources passed in the state legislature. Supporters said the bill would ease regulations for coal mining ...

DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

State officials said a bill to remove regulations on water pollution "applies a machete to an issue that needs a scalpel, at ...

I can’t say that I anticipated just the wholesale closure of every mine safety office in eastern Kentucky,” he said.

With a few exceptions, most remaining coal mining in Kentucky consists of small mines, said the committee’s chairman, state Sen. Phillip Wheeler, R-Pikeville. Requiring these mines to have two ...

Federal prison construction has boomed in central Appalachia as mining has faltered ... of justice studies at Eastern Kentucky University. In his book Coal, Cages, Crisis, Schept noted that ...

The only Kentucky location for the Office of Surface ... If lease terminations result in fewer mine safety regulators based in coal mining regions, advocates say it will come at the expense ...

The funding will match Ramaco's future investment in building a rare earth and critical minerals pilot processing facility ...

Eastern Kentucky coal mining counties show some of the heaviest reliance on private wells that use groundwater, according to the state map. More than 31,000 private use wells around Kentucky rely ...

A former surface mine in Pike County, in Eastern Kentucky, had not been fully reclaimed in December 2023 even though there had been no mining at the site in several years. Appalachian Voices Coal ...