Coal Mine

A 3,000-acre solar energy farm is planned on a former coal mining site in southern West Virginia, project officials said.

On this West Virginia Morning, with more people putting remote work as a priority, this could also mean an increase in independent workers. Also, in this show, the Allegheny Front, based in Pittsburgh, brings us their latest story about fixing problems that remain after coal mines close.

On this West Virginia Morning, we hear from two West Virginia veterans who pursued higher education after serving in the military, and we hear from the nation’s last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient, West Virginian and U.S. Marine Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams who served in the Pacific campaign and fought at the battle of Iwo Jima.

Over the past 50 in West Virginia, jobs in coal mining have declined by 66 percent -- and experts don’t predict a comeback. But we’re not alone -- other industrial places around the world face similar dilemmas. As the last story in West Virginia Public Broadcasting's series about the state of coal in West Virginia, Roxy Todd spoke with some of the people who live in those places, to find out where we may be headed. She started in Germany 50 years ago - when coal executives and political leaders were forced to make tough decisions when it came to the future of coal, and their home.

On March 11, 1939, the West Virginia Legislature passed the state’s first law regulating surface mining. Once referred to as strip mining, surface mining…

Devin Mefford is sitting in the squat metal buggy of a modified mantrip, the train-like shuttle coal miners use to travel underground. Mefford is dressed…

The nearly two-month blockade of a Kentucky railroad track is coming to an end as unpaid coal miners end their protest in order to take new jobs, start…

On this West Virginia Morning, more than 200 coal mines sit idle across central Appalachia. They have not produced coal for years. Those idled mines…

Labor leader Arnold Miller was born in Kanawha County on April 25, 1923. The son and grandson of coal miners, Miller quit school at age 16 to become a…