Armed with bucketfuls of trees, volunteers scampered along a Leslie County mountaintop that looked more like the moon than a mountain. Rocks the size of fists went tumbling as shovels struck earth to ...
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—With a federal investigation into technically active but nonproducing “zombie” mines set to begin in March, a citizens law group in Kentucky has found production idled at nearly 40% of ...
Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region ...
The dream that haunts Christine White is always the same, and though it comes less frequently, it isn’t any less terrifying. The black water comes rushing at the witching hour, barrelling toward her ...
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This Kentucky land was devastated by strip mining—now, activists want to bring the bison back
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a ...
Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region still reeling from last summer’s deadly inundations — which social justice advocates say were exacerbated by the ...
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