Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in last month's devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and ...

The legislation would require a study on the effects of strip mining in Appalachia. House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled legislation that would restart a long-stalled federal study looking at exactly ...

Until three years ago, Sam Gilbert’s neighborhood in this secluded mountain nook consisted of vegetation, salamanders in the creek and lush mountain peaks. Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered ...