State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice's family, citing a ...

The Biden administration has committed $22 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines in Southwest Virginia, the New River ...

Wellston sits almost entirely atop coal mines abandoned in the early- through mid-1900’s ... Six Appalachian states – Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Ohio – serve as ...

but one hasn’t taken place recently. He wants to see one return. Davis is adamant about preserving West Virginia’s coal heritage. “We’ve been able to get so far because of the coal ...

Meanwhile, the endangered candy darter has lost 49% of its habitat, with the species now mostly limited to the Gauley and New River basins in West Virginia and Virginia, according to the lawsuit. “If ...