This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. The actors deliver their lines from a sparse stage — just a few benches around them and 29 modest lights above. For the most part they speak directly to the audience, sharing memories of the lives of husbands, sons, fathers […]
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This is a developing story first published by Ohio Valley ReSource and may be updated. College administrators around the region are weighing their options as the novel coronavirus pandemic makes the lectures, events and dormitories of campus life potential means of transmission of the highly infectious virus. Several schools are […]
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This is a developing story and may be updated as more information is available. 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 from regional lawmakers pointed to Iranian […]
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This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Residents of Appalachian coal communities told a Congressional subcommittee Tuesday that the controversial mining practice known as mountaintop removal should be halted until its health effects are better studied. Late in the Obama administration, the National Academy of Sciences launched a […]
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In the wake of an NPR and PBS Frontline investigation into the surge in cases of black lung disease, a coalition of black lung clinics is calling for action to better protect coal miners from dust exposure. NPR reports that more than 2,300 miners in central Appalachia are sick with the most serious form […]
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Just a few months ago, the U.S. coal mining industry was on track for its safest year in history. But in an eleven-day span in late December, three miners died after separate incidents, bringing the total number of fatalities in 2018 to 12, even as coal mining employment continued its […]
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