OpEd: To incentivize economic growth in our declining coal towns and prevent extensive pollution, what if our mines were repurposed as geothermal sites?

The federal government has granted approval of a new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky, per an announcement Monday.

The preferred site in Letcher County identified by the U.S. Bureau ... is on 500 acres of land leveled by mountaintop removal coal mining in Roxana, roughly 10 miles to the west of Whitesburg.

Plans for construction of a new medium-security federal prison in Letcher County have been approved ... of land leveled by mountaintop removal coal mining in Roxana, roughly 10 miles to the ...

Plans for construction of a new medium-security federal prison in Letcher County have been approved by the U.S. Bureau ... is on 500 acres of land leveled by mountaintop removal coal mining in Roxana, ...

A Republican, he had served in the state Senate since 2021, representing Bell, Floyd, Harlan, Knott and Letcher counties ... and representing thousands of coal miners.” Calling Turner a ...

He also said that Turner’s family, including his wife Maritza and their children and grandchildren, was “like family to me and mine ... to help folks in Letcher County,” McConnell ...

It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in late July, two years ago in rural Pike County, Kentucky ... That rain often falls on ground where coal mining excavations removed mountaintops.

A project to build 130 homes in an Eastern Kentucky County ... Mine Land Economic Revitalization program, which Rogers set up in 2016 to provide money to try to boost jobs in areas such as Eastern ...

WHITESBURG In her old house — built more than 100 years ago by a coal company — Lois Thompson says she couldn’t afford to run ...