Appalachia News

The Obama administration says reversing a last-minute Bush-era surface mining regulation criticized as too friendly to coal companies is going to take at least another year.

Rob Amberg, the award-winning photographer and author of "Sodom Laurel Album," unveils his new book, "The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress in Appalachia," along with an exhibit of his work 6-9 p.m. Saturday at the Madison County Arts Center, 56 N. Main St.

Nov. 3, 2009 Appalachian Memoirist to Read from Her Work at Marshall University Special to Huntingtonnews.net Huntington, WV - Writer Linda Tate will read from her work at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov.

A small crowd of a few dozen activists turned out Thursday for the first local showing of "Coal Country," a film depicting the downside of mountaintop mining that will soon air on public television.

Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other environmental groups are planning nationwide protests demanding an end to mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.

Appalachian community advocates and environmentalists across the nation are expressing outrage that mountaintop removal coal mining operations have begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, a mountain that has become symbolic in the nationwide campaign to end mountaintop removal mining.

A drilling crew move a section of steel pipe at a natural gas well site near Bradford, Pennsylvania... A drilling crew move a section of steel pipe at a natural gas well site near Bradford, Pennsylvania in this August 13, 2008 file photo.

Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered that volcanoes played a pivotal role in a deadly ice age that occurred nearly half a billion years ago.

In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Larry Gibson stands atop Kayford Mountain and overlooks a mountaintop removal mining site with Coal River Mountain in the background at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. Appalachian leaders are seeking ways to use alternative energy initiatives to spark the 13-state region's long-sluggish economy.

Another federal grant will benefit Fancy Gap as a gateway community to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Joseph Marzelli is glad for the cheerful canary singing in the darkness of an Appalachian coal mine.

This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign .

Just a reminder: We still can't grow mountains. Once they're gone, they're gone.

What exactly is a mandolin? According to Wikipedia : "A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family descended from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family.

Many visitors to our area ask questions about the Hatfield-McCoy Feud and I explain to them that the animosity began during the Civil War when Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield was blamed for the assassination of Yankee leader Bill France and that the single biggest contributor to the feud was a greedy lawyer in Pike County who wanted some timber ...

BIG STONE GAP, Va. - A raucous crowd arrived Thursday for a public hearing on the future of permits allowing surface mine waste to be dumped into streams.

Limits on mountaintop removal coal mining won't end affordable electricity and could in the long run help improve the economy of the Appalachian coalfields, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Sierra Club.

It may be the best deal in all of the apple butter making world: You can borrow Cora Myer's copper kettle, but Cora comes with it.

Thousands of coal miners fearing the loss of jobs if mountaintop removal mining is curtailed or outlawed shouted down a handful of environmentalists at crowded public hearings Tuesday on the much-debated practice.

In late July, in the heart of Appalachia, thousands crowded onto a southwest Virginia fairground for the annual Wise County free medical clinic led byA Remote Area Medical ,A a volunteer medical relief corps based out of Tennessee.