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Mine Workers’ Leader Wants To Save Last Coal Jobs As Biden Tackles Climate
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said he’s been hearing the term “just transition” tossed around for more than 20 years as part of… Read More
White House Climate Advisor Sees A Path To A Clean Energy Transition Through Coal Country
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — For decades now, rhetoric around action on climate change has been about things like saving the planet, or saving polar bears. Just think: How many times… Read More
Coal Mine Safety Regulators Issue COVID Protection Guidelines, But No Regulations
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — The U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday stronger coronavirus safety guidance intended to keep coal miners safe from COVID-19 in the workplace. However, the Labor Department’s… Read More
Ohio Valley States Will Reap $45M From Opioid Suit Settlement With McKinsey Consulting
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LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia will collectively receive roughly $45 million as part of settlement agreements announced Thursday resolving lawsuits against consulting giant McKinsey & Company… Read More
Remembering A Miner Who Personified Coal’s Contributions And Costs
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Charles Wayne Stanley ran underground mining machines for some 20 years, cutting coal from beneath the hills where Virginia meets Kentucky along the Cumberland ridge. He spent another decade as… Read More
Former Blackjewel Miners Could Get More Money From Proposed Settlement
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CASPER, Wyo. (OVR) — A proposed $17.3 million settlement of a class action lawsuit would provide additional payment for hundreds of Appalachian coal miners who were suddenly left jobless by… Read More
Another 99,000 Join Unemployed In Ohio Valley As U.S. Jobless Total Tops 38M
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — The U.S. Department of Labor reported close to 99,000 additional unemployment insurance claims in the last week from Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, as state unemployment offices worked their… Read More
Unemployment Claims In Ohio Valley Surge Again, Up Another 355,000
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Claims for unemployment insurance once again surged around the Ohio Valley as nearly 355,500 people in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia sought help last week amid the economic calamity caused… Read More
Coal Country: Can a Play About a Mine Disaster Help Bridge a National Divide?
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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… Read More
Ohio Valley Unemployment Claims Soar to Nearly 400,000 Amid Pandemic Shutdown
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — Claims for unemployment insurance soared around the Ohio Valley region as nearly 400,000 people in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia sought help amid the economic freeze… Read More
Coal Community Residents Again Ask Congress For Health Study Of Mountaintop Removal
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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… Read More
Toyota Revs Up Hybrid Vehicle Production In Ohio Valley
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The automaker Toyota announced Thursday major new investments in facilities in Kentucky and West Virginia to increase production of hybrid vehicles. Toyota plans to invest about $750 million in facilities… Read More
Three Miners Dead In Eleven Days: Grim December Caps Year In Coal Mine Safety
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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… Read More
Data Dives And Shoe Leather: How NPR’s Howard Berkes Investigated Appalachia’s Black Lung Epidemic
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NPR is reporting that more than two thousand coal miners are now suffering from the most severe form of black lung disease, Progressive Massive Fibrosis, or PMF. And despite clear warnings, investigative… Read More
Driving While Recovering: For Some Fighting Addiction, A Roadblock On The Path To Sobriety
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After decades of addiction to heroin and prescription opioids, Wendy Crites finally made a clean break. “For the first time in my life I just wanted to be off of… Read More
Rural Counties Under Stress From Justice Companies’ Unpaid Taxes In Several States
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In October, 2016, NPR, Ohio Valley ReSource and its partners reported that West Virginia billionaire coal baron Jim Justice, who was running for governor as a Democrat, owned companies that owed… Read More
Region’s Black Lung Rates Highest In 25 Years
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A new study by federal health officials finds the recent surge in cases of black lung disease is especially concentrated among coal miners in central Appalachia. Researchers at the National Institute for Occupational… Read More
National Academy Report Urges Stronger Coal Dust Monitoring Amid Black Lung Surge
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A new report from the National Academy of Sciences says the coal mining industry needs a “fundamental shift” in the way it controls exposure to coal and rock dust in order to… Read More
J.D. Vance Investor Tour Draws Hopeful Companies And Harsh Critics
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J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” returns to his native Kentucky this week. But Vance isn’t selling books this time. He’s leading a bus tour of well-heeled venture… Read More
Firing Offense: Where Ohio Valley Senators Stand On Special Counsel Mueller
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“Why don’t you just fire the guy?” The question came in a press availability with President Trump soon after he learned that federal agents, acting on information from Special Counsel… Read More
Private Money To Pay For Mining Study Trump Administration Had Stopped
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The prestigious National Academy of Sciences is pursuing private funding to complete a study of the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining after the Trump administration ordered a halt to the scientific work…. Read More
“Matewan” Revisited: Film Unearthed Region’s Buried Labor History
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Thirty years ago the premiere of a small-budget, independent film had an out-sized effect on how many people in Appalachian coal country thought about their region and their past. “Matewan,” directed… Read More
Trumped: Coal’s Collapse, Economic Anxiety Motivated Ohio Valley Voters
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The electoral map of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia is a sea of red with a few islands of blue. Of the 263 counties in the three states only nine… Read More