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Volunteers hand out signs opposing a data center complex in Tucker County, West Virginia, following a public meeting on June 30, 2025. (ULYSSE BELLIER/AFP via Getty Images)

West Virginia's new strip mines

Sean Carlton
Activists and coal opponents take part in a demonstration procession, a protest action by climate activists after the evacuation of Lützerath. (Federico Gambarini/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Protestors fight coal mine expansion

Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
Three miners push a load of coal through the tunnel (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

How Germany saved coal miners' health

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
One can see the effects of a mountaintop coal removal operation on the land near Beckley, West Virginia (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Time to end the war on Appalachia

Jeff Biggers
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A dump truck hauls coal at Contura Energy's Eagle Butte Mine near Gillette, Wyo. (AP/Mead Gruver)

Trump said he'd save coal: Seems not

Igor Derysh
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Utilities rush for the coal exit

Carl Pope
Donald Trump speaks a rally on August 21, 2018 in Charleston, West Virginia. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Poisoning the planet, owning the libs

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/agnormark)

Coal, power and American manhood

Nicole Karlis
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Trump's contempt for coal country

Amanda Marcotte
FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, a mechanized shovel loads coal from an 80-feet thick seam into a haul truck at Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek mine near Decker, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) (AP)

Black lung disease

Anna Allen, Carl Werntz - The Conversation
(AP/Steve Helber)

Trump's push for coal leaves out health

Charlie May
(Ryan Dorgan/Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File)

Trump is kowtowing to Big Coal

Matthew Rozsa
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(AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Trump nominates Gardner as mines chief

Ian Macdougall - ProPublica
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Life after coal

Amelia Urry - Grist
(AP/Steve Helber)

Why coal still hopes for Trump miracle

Matthew Rozsa
Robert Murray; John Oliver (AP/Jae C. Hong/Charles Sykes)

ACLU comes to Oliver's defense

Taylor Link
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John Oliver; Robert Murray (AP/Charles Sykes/Jae C. Hong)

Mad Coal king sues John Oliver

Charlie May

It ain't coming back

Charlie May
AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, FILE (AP)

Championing coal over wind

Mead Gruver
Larry, a worker at Superior Coal Breaker, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. (Photos by Joel Anderson)

Years of pain dictated votes

Vinnie Rotondaro - Narratively
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Donald Trump (AP/Matt Rourke)

Trump: Kill the planet

Simon Maloy
Bill Hader (screenshot/"Saturday Night Live")

Sarah Gray
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Lindsay Abrams
(Ken Wolter/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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