Tag: Environment

Steel-Making Coal Upturn Brings New Mine, Old Problems to WV Community

This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. This story was co-published with Southerly, a nonprofit journalism organization that covers the intersection of ecology, justice, and culture in the American South.  It started with the noise, the round-the-clock roar of a […]

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Meet the Virginia Conservationist Trying to Turn Old Coalfields Into Solar Farms

Brad Kreps directs the Nature Conservancy’s Clinch Valley Program, which is working to make the vision of developing solar energy projects on former coalfields a reality in central Appalachia. Chatter about the potential of covering played-out coalfields in central Appalachia with solar arrays has simmered for years. Progress on the […]

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