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Kentucky Aluminum Plant Investor Is Russian Company Formerly Under U.S. Sanctions
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Russian aluminum company Rusal announced Monday it plans to invest in a new Kentucky aluminum mill to be built near Ashland in eastern Kentucky. The $200 million investment in Braidy Industries is Rusal’s first… Read More
Sweet Equity: Ohio Valley Farmers Tapping Into Tradition
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When Seth Long first began experimenting with maple syrup production, he tapped hollow pegs called spiles into individual trees, collected drips of sap in milk jugs, and carried each gallon… Read More
Toyota Driving Demand For Solar Power In Ohio Valley
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Automaker Toyota is planning to announce a major investment in solar and other renewable energy in Appalachia and the Southeastern U.S. The plan includes a massive new solar facility on… Read More
Profiting Off Prisoners: State Inmates Mean Big Bucks for Local Jails
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Rural jails in Kentucky are increasingly relying on income derived from payments for holding state prisoners in county facilities, according to a new report by a think tank that advocates… Read More
Inventor, Businessman, Activist: The Remarkable Life Of Ohio Valley Native Garrett Morgan
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On the night of July 24, 1916, a natural gas explosion near Cleveland trapped workers in a waterworks tunnel beneath Lake Erie. Rescuers sent in to recover the trapped men… Read More
Kentucky Project’s Demise Linked to International Fallout From Journalist’s Murder
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When battery manufacturer EnerBlu announced it would suspend plans for a new factory in Pikeville, Kentucky, the company used an intriguing phrase. “Unexpected geopolitical factors,” the company said, had soured… Read More
Still Fighting: These Widows’ Stories Show Larger Effects of Black Lung Epidemic
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Nancy and Rich Potter had the kind of marriage that made other couples jealous. He’d take her on spontaneous trips. She’d wear her Daisy Dukes just for him. Joyce Birman… Read More
Still, They Persist: Black Lung Advocates Demonstrate At McConnell’s KY Office
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With just days left before a Congressional deadline, advocates for black lung treatment are still pushing Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell to secure funding for miners’ benefits. About two dozen people demonstrated… Read More
Amid Black Lung Surge Pulmonary Rehab Brings Hope To Disabled Miners
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Marcy Tate grew up in southwest Virginia in a coal mining family. “My father-in-law was a coal miner, my father was a coal miner, my grandfather was a coal miner,… Read More
Digging For Answers: New Report Points To Industry Obfuscation Of Mining’s Health Effects
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Jason Walker spends $50 per month on bottled water. He spends three hours each week standing by the small stream that runs near his house, pumping creek water into a… Read More
GOP Tax Bill Would Extend Endangered Funding for Disabled Miners
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As Appalachian coal miners suffer from a historic surge in black lung disease, a federal trust fund that supports some of those miners has been scheduled to lose a significant… Read More
KY Coal Mine That Belonged To WV Governor Causes Damaging Floods Again
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The rain started around 10:30 p.m. By midnight, the creek in front of Elvis and Laura Thackers’ house had swelled to a mighty flood, uprooting trees, moving boulders and surging… Read More
McConnell Hints At Action To Preserve Tax Supporting Black Lung Fund
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Amid a surge in cases of black lung disease, concerns are rising about the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which provides federal benefits to some coal miners with the disease. A tax… Read More
West Virginia And Kentucky College Students Still Struggle to Pay Back Loans
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New research this month shows that West Virginia and Kentucky have some of the nation’s worst rates of student loan defaults. West Virginia had the highest and Kentucky the fourth-highest… Read More