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Farmer Fatigue: Farmers Grow Weary Of Trade War, But Most Stick With Trump

Tom Folz drives around on a sunny, August afternoon and surveys the thousands of acres of dark green, leafy soybean plants and tall stalks of corn he grows on his sprawling farm in Christian County,...

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Meet The Little Green Clover That Beat The Odds

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is moving to take a rare species of plant found in the Ohio Valley off of the endangered species list. Amid controversial proposals to change the law protecting rare...

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Idle Lands: Justice Coal Group Top User Of Loophole Allowing Mine Lands To...

Standing at an overlook on the top of Black Mountain — the tallest point in Kentucky —  the wooded Appalachian mountains stretch on like a sea of green for miles. For many, this mountain is synonymous...

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While “Zombie” Mines Idle, Cleanup And Workers Remain In Limbo

The sound of metal banging against metal broke the calm on the high mesa separating Colorado’s Paradox and Big Gypsum valleys. An old rusted headframe marked the entrance to an abandoned uranium mine...

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SOAR At Six: Group’s Lofty Goals For Coal Country Meet Challenges On The Ground

In a conference hall in Pikeville, Kentucky, this September, Gov. Matt Bevin led an eager audience in a countdown. When the audience reached “One!,” a map on the screen behind the governor lit up with...

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Meet The Coal Town Betting Big On Outdoor Recreation 

Standing on the breezy outlook at Flag Rock Recreation Area, Norton City Manager Fred Ramey is taking in the panoramic view of downtown Norton, Virginia. The brick building-lined streets are framed by...

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Water is Unaffordable for Nearly Half of Martin Countians, Report Finds

A new report finds nearly half the residents of Martin County, Kentucky, cannot afford water service. Local activists with the Martin County Concerned Citizens are ringing alarm bells about water...

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Blackjewel Miners Likely to Receive Pay in DOL Deal

The Department of Labor and a company associated with Blackjewel agreed this week to put nearly $5.75 million toward coal miners left unpaid in the company’s chaotic bankruptcy.  The July 1 bankruptcy...

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Rethinking Retraining: Why Worker Training Programs Alone Won’t Save Coal...

Bobby Bowman mined coal in West Virginia for 12 years before his employer shut down.  “I don’t think that mine will ever open again,” he said.  Bowman lives in Welch, in the south of the state, where...

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Grassroots Growing: Hemp Farmers Form Cooperatives Amid Growth And Uncertainty

Tony Silvernail swings a heavy machete at a stalk of bushy hemp and chops the plant near the root, grabbing the five-foot-tall shoot with his sun-weathered hand.  It’s an unusually hot October day on...

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Portal 31: How A Closed Mine Opened New Prospects For One Coal Town

Devin Mefford is sitting in the squat metal buggy of a modified mantrip, the train-like shuttle coal miners use to travel underground. Mefford is dressed for work, in a hardhat and a navy shirt and...

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Study Shows Ohio Valley’s Premature Deaths Driving Down National Longevity Rates

A new medical study shows that after decades of increasing life expectancy across the country, people are living shorter lives. And that trend is in part driven by premature deaths among people in the...

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Mountain Air: Youth Help Identify Causes Of Ohio Valley’s High Lung Disease...

Isabella Back, 18, pulls her jacket tight around herself as she crosses the gravel driveway. “So we’re going about 10 feet from my house to my dad’s workshop,” she says, and pushes through a door in a...

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Two Decades Of Resistance: Coal River Mountain Watch Takes Stock At 20

Coal River Mountain Watch’s history of resistance to mountaintop coal mining is plastered across the wood-paneled walls of the group’s modest office in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Framed photos,...

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Innovating Recovery: Group Highlights New Approaches To Addiction Crisis

After years of leading the nation in overdose death rates, Ohio Valley communities are looking for new ways to deal with the addiction crisis. A national nonprofit organization promotes and partners...

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Regional Reaction To Iran: Ohio Valley Lawmakers Split On U.S. Killing Of...

Congressional members around the Ohio Valley offered mixed reactions to the U.S. airstrike that killed one of Iran’s top military officers and pushed the two countries closer to war.   Most statements...

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More Unpaid Appalachian Miners Stage A Coal Train Blockade 

For the second time since summer, eastern Kentucky coal miners are blockading a railroad track to protest unpaid wages. The new blockade, which was started Monday afternoon by Quest Energy miners,...

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Ohio Valley Farmers Cautiously Optimistic About U.S.-China Trade Deal

The Trump administration is set to sign a deal Wednesday with Chinese trade officials for what they call “Phase One” of a trade agreement after almost two years of false starts and costly, retaliatory...

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Hemp Prices Crash Leaving Ohio Valley Farmers Feeling Burned

Ohio Valley farmers planted more than 27,000 acres of hemp last year — about four times more than in 2018 —  to cash in on a booming market for popular CBD products made from the crop.  Yet with that...

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Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law...

Lynn Estel Stanley was the kind of coal mine foreman who wanted to know if there was a safety problem, and would always be the one to go fix it himself. He was also the kind of miner who refused to...

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