But the company-controlled monetary systems continued in Appalachian coal camps for decades. (Photo by Junior Walk) I carry coal company scrip in a little zipper pouch in my wallet everywhere I go. It ...

In Appalachian Ohio, when a coal-fired power plant shuts down, entire communities feel the aftershocks. At Ohio University's ...

You feel that spirit in the coal towns etched into the hills of Appalachian Kentucky. Places where people don’t need lectures on consuming energy—they produce it. That’s why Trump’s recent ...

The coal miners were a diverse group of men who came from farms in Appalachia, Eastern Europe ... but their work above ground was integral to the coal camp system. In many cases, a wife's unpaid ...

Healing Appalachia, which bills itself as "the largest recovery-based music festival," is moving to eastern Kentucky this ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Appalachian Voices today sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect highly ...