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West Virginia coal industry pushes for state office to recruit miners, promote coal benefits

A dormant state office to help spur economic development in former coal towns may soon be repurposed into a public relations shop that would promote the benefits of coal and recruit miners.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to clear-cut in the Monongahela National Forest. West Virginians worry it’s a return to the state’s destructive logging past

Justice-owned company to pay nearly $1 million for chronic air pollution violations

West Virginia lawmakers created a commission to help struggling coal communities. Gov. Jim Justice still hasn’t appointed members.

As Corridor H nears completion, residents fight state highway officials to route it around their towns

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Biden promised to focus on ‘environmental justice.’ So far, that doesn’t include finishing key review of mountaintop removal’s health impacts

To land green energy plant, West Virginia lawmakers bypassed their own utility regulators

West Virginia, Kentucky officials repeatedly ignored plans to prepare for catastrophic floods. Residents are paying the price

The tragedy of north Birmingham

Mountain State Spotlight explains: Why does the Mountain Valley Pipeline need Joe Manchin to change the law?