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Speedy Decision: Are Poultry Processors Pushing Safety Limits?
After serving five years in the Navy Tyler Dunn has returned home to Hickman, Kentucky. These days, if he isn’t at work at the local liquor store or completing assignments… Read More
EPA Limits Use Of Problematic Herbicide Dicamba
The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to some limits on the use of a controversial herbicide called dicamba, which farmers throughout the region have blamed for crop damage. A change to… Read More
Trying Times For Transit: Rural Systems Face Flat Funding And Rising Demand
Thelma Daulton goes to the salon to get her hair done at the same time every Friday. She gets picked up at her house and greeted by one of many… Read More
Coal Comfort: Trump’s EPA And Energy’s Winners And Losers
The Environmental Protection Agency’s move to end the Clean Power Plan is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to support the struggling coal industry. The Department of Energy is also pushing a new… Read More
EPA’s Pruitt Visits Kentucky Coal Country To End Clean Power Plan
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt used a trip to Kentucky coal country to announce the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle a regulation that sought to limit carbon pollution. Pruitt… Read More
“Matewan” Revisited: Film Unearthed Region’s Buried Labor History
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
Bipartisan Bill Would Prop Up Coal Miners’ Pensions
A bipartisan Congressional group from the Ohio Valley and beyond introduced a new bill to save pensions for retired union coal miners throughout the region. The American Miners Pension Act, or AMP,… Read More
Opioids On Trial: Can Lawsuits Help Fix The Addiction Crisis?
When health care and law enforcement officials met recently at a health policy forum in Lexington, Kentucky, to share ideas about the opioid crisis, Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear listed… Read More
Manchin Opposes Trump’s Mine Safety Nominee
West Virginia Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin will not support the Trump administration’s nominee to lead the federal agency in charge of mine safety. Manchin said in a statement that he will… Read More
Hog-Tied? NAFTA Talks Have Ohio Valley Pork Producers Nervous
Talks on renegotiating NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, are set for later this month and farm country is concerned about the potential fallout from a trade dispute. Pork… Read More
The Big Latch: Rising Breast-feeding Rates Could Boost Region’s Health
Edwin Hall is dressed in a footed onsie covered in the pastel shades of monkeys and hippos. Although Edwin’s just seven weeks old he already tells his mom when he’s… Read More
New Mine Safety “Assistance” Program Raises Concerns
Lawmakers and union leaders are raising concerns about the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s practices amid an increase in coal fatalities. West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin asked MSHA for… Read More
More Breakdowns Halt Ohio River Traffic
Another breakdown at an aging lock and dam has halted river traffic on the Ohio in western Kentucky. It’s the second such interruption in less than a year for a stretch of… Read More
Coal Fatalities Rise: Miner Deaths Increase Amid Low Coal Employment
A rash of fatal coal mining accidents in the Ohio Valley region pushed the nation’s total number of mining deaths to a level not seen since 2015, sparking concern among… Read More
Strip Mining Science: Trump Administration Stops Mining Health Study
The Perry County Public Library in Hazard, Kentucky, lies along Black Gold Boulevard — a name that nods to the wealth the coal from these hills has generated. On a… Read More
Appalachian Health Falling Further Behind
A new report shows just how far Appalachia has fallen behind the rest of the country on key health measures such as rates of cancer, heart disease and infant mortality…. Read More
Trump Administration Halts Mining Health Study
The Trump administration’s Department of the Interior has asked the National Academy of Sciences to suspend research into the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. A team from the National Academies… Read More
Opioid Emergency: What The Ohio Valley Needs To Combat Crisis
The opioid crisis gripping the Ohio Valley is now, according to President Donald Trump, a national emergency. But more than a week after the president made that announcement, state and… Read More
Little River, Big Ideas: Farming Group Wades Into Clean Water Issues
In the rich land of Christian County, wheat is milled for McDonald’s biscuits, corn is turned into ethanol, and grazing cows support the state’s leading dairy. This is Kentucky’s breadbasket,… Read More
Trump Declares Opioid Crisis Emergency: Ohio Valley Reacts
Days after sending mixed signals on his response to the nation’s opioid crisis, President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to declare a national emergency to better address the… Read More
In The Pipeline: New Commission Members To Take Up Energy Projects
Big-ticket gas pipelines and other energy projects pending in the Ohio Valley have largely been in limbo because the federal body that issues important permits had too many empty seats…. Read More
Data Fix: Cities Seek Better Information On Opioid Epidemic
Paramedics and police are already in the hotel room when Kyle Simpson walks in. “What happened?” he asks. A 37-year-old man in the room is barely conscious–just revived by the… Read More
Memory Sunday: Churches Spread Alzheimer’s Awareness
The church choir in bright blue robes swayed and testified on a hot summer Sunday. Pastor Anthony Everett, in his own robe of orange and brown, preached to his “saints”… Read More
Considering Compassion: The Science Behind The Ohio Valley’s “Compassionate Cities”
Many towns and cities across the Ohio Valley try to improve their business environment with tax breaks, site development, and other incentives. But how about investing in compassion? A growing… Read More
Report Reveals Contaminants In “Legal” Water
An environmental group’s new report shows a broad range of contaminants occur in many drinking water systems in the Ohio Valley, even though the water meets federal requirements. The research… Read More
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