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Trump's push to save the fading coal industry gets a warm embrace in West Virginia
The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...
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Coal communities praise President Trump's order they hope will stop the decline of the industry
Taking in the ruins of a former coal mine abandoned 60 years ago, WV's Coal Festival Teen imagines the rusted remains of the coal tipples and company stores.
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Trump said he would end the ‘war on coal.’ His tariffs will likely hurt the industry.
As the Trump administration wages a trade war with China, West Virginia’s coal industry is bracing for economic shortfalls.
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Abandoned coal mines are becoming the batteries of the future
From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts ... toward renewable storage in abandoned mines is supported by research ...