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Restricted Right: Ohio Valley Women Face Abortion Barriers
By: Mary Meehan | Ohio Valley ReSource
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A small gaggle of reporters points their microphones at reproductive rights activist Marcie Crim as she bluntly decries the shrinking access to abortion in the region. Crim stands just a… Read More
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Analysis Shows Toxic Sites In Flood Zone
By: Alexandra Kanik | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The Ohio Valley has long been home to some of the dirtiest industries in the nation. Coal, plastics, and chemical plants and their waste sites dot our river valleys. Even… Read More
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$econd Chance: The Economic Case For Drug Treatment Over Jails
By: Becca Schimmel | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Imagine living and working somewhere designed to fit a couple hundred people. Now picture that same space crammed with twice that number. Madison County, Kentucky, Jailer Doug Thomas doesn’t have… Read More
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Burned By Coal: Coalfield Communities Facing Electricity Price Hikes
By: Benny Becker | Ohio Valley ReSource
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One evening this past November, angry customers and public officials filled a high school auditorium in Hazard, Kentucky, and took turns pleading with three members of the state’s public service… Read More
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Private Money To Pay For Mining Study Trump Administration Had Stopped
By: Jeff Young | Ohio Valley ReSource
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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
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Mine Health Expert Concerned About Review Of Coal Dust Rule
By: Benny Becker | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget has announced a review of an Obama-era rule that protects coal miners from exposure to the dust that causes black lung disease. That has… Read More
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Rare Opportunity: Researchers See Potential In Mining Coal Waste
By: Glynis Board | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Throughout coal mining country of the Eastern U.S. you will find streams that run a peculiar rusty orange. It’s the result of pollution called acid mine drainage, or AMD. It’s… Read More
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Survey Finds Teen Use Of Opioids Declining
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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A survey produced by the National Institute on Drug Abuse found a rare bit of good news about the opioid crisis: fewer teenagers reported using opioids outside of medical purposes. The Monitoring the… Read More
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Miners’ Pensions A Major Part Of Spending Debate
By: Becca Schimmel | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Retired union coal miners are joining teamsters, iron workers and other union retirees in an effort to shore up their ailing pension plans, and they hope the ticking clock on… Read More
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Changing Course: “Tiny House” Project Tackles Big Problems In Coal Country
By: Benny Becker | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The sound of power tools blends with teenage chatter as students clamber around, under, and over a trailer bed that they’re busy turning into a home. They’re part of a… Read More
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“Poverty Tour” Brings United Nations Expert To Ohio Valley
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Law professor Philip Alston is a United Nations expert on extreme poverty. In his position as a U.N. Special Rapporteur he reports on places where pervasive poverty and human rights issues intersect, places such… Read More
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R.I.P., CPP? Clean Energy Trend Likely To Continue Despite Trump’s Clean Power Repeal
By: Glynis Board | Ohio Valley ReSource
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey stood in front of the state’s capitol to rally the roughly 120 coal miners and industry boosters gathered there. “The fight against the unlawful… Read More
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Clean Power Plan’s Repeal Gets Hearing In Coal Country
By: Glynis Board | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Last month the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt chose an eastern Kentucky mining town as the venue to announce his intent to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era… Read More
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Changing Course: A School Cooperative Aims To Remake Coal Communities
By: Jeff Young | Benny Becker | Mary Meehan | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Betsy Layne High School serves rural Floyd County in the eastern Kentucky town of Stanville, population 206. Students there produce a video program called “Bobcat Banter” where they usually talk… Read More
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Serving Those Who Served: Veterans Pantry Program Reaches Out To Hungry
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach; troops must be fed in order to fight. But what happens when that army faces hunger after marching back home?… Read More
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Gutting Guest Worker Rights: Migrant Labor Bill Cuts Protections
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Roberto Gonzales and six other workers came from Nayarit, Mexico, to work on a Garrard County, Kentucky, tobacco farm using a guest worker program called the H-2A visa. The Department of… Read More
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Controversial Mine Safety Nominee Faces Final Vote
By: Becca Schimmel | Ohio Valley ReSource
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A Senate vote is scheduled for Wednesday on confirmation for President Trump’s nominee to lead the Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA. The country’s top mine safety position has… Read More
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Carbon Capture Reconsidered: Big-Ticket Climate Fix Gets a Fresh Look
By: Glynis Board | Ohio Valley ReSource
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A bipartisan group in Congress, including several Ohio Valley lawmakers, is pushing for more federal support for technology known as carbon capture and storage. The lawmakers and an uncommon alliance… Read More
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Addiction U: Schools Form Research Consortium On Opioid Epidemic
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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At a conference last year on the region’s opioid crisis, journalist Sam Quinones presented a call to action to Northern Kentucky University. Quinones is author of the influential book on… Read More
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Striking Migrant Farm Workers Win Settlement
By: Benny Becker | Ohio Valley ReSource
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After about three weeks on strike, a group of migrant workers employed at a tobacco farm in Gerrard County, Kentucky have reached a settlement with the farm’s owner. The workers came… Read More
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Tobacco’s Toll: New Push To Stop Smoking In Country’s Sickest States
By: Mary Meehan | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Hundreds of kids scurrying to buses are oblivious to a sign above them declaring Bourbon County High School “100 percent Tobacco Free.” But upstairs in the library, sophomore and anti-smoking… Read More
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A BOOn From Bats: Naturalists Aim To Help Bats Fight Deadly Disease
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Bats have a bit of an image problem. You probably saw some Halloween decorations this week featuring flying, fanged creatures of the night. But conservationists say bats are actually very… Read More
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Opioid Emergency: How Trump’s Plan Will — And Won’t — Help The Ohio Valley
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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As bad as the opioid epidemic is across the nation, it is even worse here in the Ohio Valley. Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia collectively have a rate of opioid-related… Read More
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Trumps Cite Ohio Valley Experience In Opioid Emergency Plan
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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President Donald Trump outlined on Thursday his long-awaited plan to address the opioid crisis as a national public health emergency. Part of that plan was based on experiences in the Ohio Valley… Read More
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Little Regional Coordination As Trump Unveils Delayed Opioid Emergency Plan
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Many lawmakers from the Ohio Valley region say they’ll be at the White House Thursday as President Donald Trump is expected to unveil a long-awaited emergency declaration to address the… Read More
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