Kentucky’s Mountaintop Mines Are Turned Into Neighborhoods
As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...
This Kentucky land was devastated by strip mining—now, activists want to bring the bison back
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...
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17 solar, storage projects to be sited on former coal mines in the Appalachians
The Nature Conservancy and the Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership have announced new agreements with Sun Tribe Development ...
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Asking Appalachia: Coal, Trump and the politics of eastern Kentucky
Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...
LG&E wants Trump's EPA to roll back coal ash and greenhouse gas regulations
Biden-era regulations on coal ash and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants would bring "harm to the economy," utilities ...
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Shell Group Company Starts Solar Farm at Former Kentucky Coal Mine
A 111-MW solar power facility built on reclaimed land at a former coal mine site in Kentucky has entered commercial operation. The Martin County Solar Project (MCSP), developed, built, owned and ...
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Kentucky’s newest solar farm is now active. Most of its power goes to Toyota.
Kentucky’s newest solar farm is up and running in Martin County. The Martin County Solar Project is an 850-acre plot built on the old Martiki coal mine. With over 214,000 double-sided solar ...
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Savion commissions 111MW Kentucky solar plant on reclaimed coal mine
US solar developer Savion has commissioned the Martin County Solar Project (MCSP) in the US state of Kentucky, its first to be designed and built on a reclaimed coal mine. MCSP is a 111MW project ...