Topic: mountaintop removal

Flanked by industry workers, President Donald Trump speaks at a White House signing ceremony for executive orders to revive clean coal technology. (ANDREW THOMAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Appalachia clings to Trump

Jim Branscome
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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Is science "a Democrat thing"?

Amanda Marcotte
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Trump's contempt for coal country

Amanda Marcotte