The demographic projections paint a devastating picture for the Appalachian coalfields. According to data from three major state universities, Central Appalachia faces population losses that rival the ...

Technological innovations that displace demand for local producers can hurt finances for households in the same area. Demand for Appalachian coal declined precipitously between 2011 and 2018 following ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Graphic from U.S. Census Bureau) McDowell County, West Virginia, had nearly 100,000 residents in 1950. Today it has fewer than 17 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Eastern Kentucky's coalfield counties the decline in population has largely passed from the hands of the young people who leave ...

US coal market prices extended a steady rally in November, with export and domestic benchmarks making gains. Coal plant generation share through 2035 is forecast to decline slowly to just 7.5% from 18 ...

Hundreds of former coal miners may lose their most direct path to recovering wages and benefits they say they were owed after an Eastern Kentucky coal operator laid them off without notice earlier ...

Coal production is on track to fall from a year earlier in most US basins this quarter because of muted domestic spot trading. US mines produced an estimated 99.1mn short tons (st) (89.9mn metric ...

The volume of coal delivered in the United States for uses other than power generation—primarily, for manufacturing—decreased by about half in the last 15 years. Coal delivered for these purposes in ...

In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, fog hovers over a mountaintop as a cut out of a coal miner stands at a memorial to local miners killed on the job in Cumberland, Ky. For over a century, life in Central ...