Jun 9 Energy & Environment Federal mine safety agency to increase silica dust inspections The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration announced it’s going to start cracking down on coal mines that expose workers to harmful levels of silica dust. It also seeks to educate miners about their rights — known as “Part 90 rights” — to a safe workplace. For decades, researchers, mine safety advocates and the National Institute […] By Katie Myers and Justin Hicks Jun 9 Energy & Environment Federal mine safety agency to increase silica dust inspections Katie Myers and Justin Hicks
Sep 10 Energy & Environment Shouldering Coal’s Costs: Uncertain Future for Programs Addressing Coal Industry Health Impacts Bennett Quillen walks through a late August downpour check on his fall crop, and sees that his greasy beans are coming ripe. He learned how to farm from his father, and he’s determined to model environmental stewardship for his community. “I believe in taking care of the land,” Quillen says. “I want to leave the […] By Katie Myers Sep 10 Energy & Environment Shouldering Coal’s Costs: Uncertain Future for Programs Addressing Coal Industry Health Impacts Katie Myers
Jun 17 Resource Shift Five Years Of The Ohio Valley ReSource The Ohio Valley ReSource marks its fifth anniversary this month. With your help, this collaboration among seven public media stations in three states is still doing the job it set out to do in June, 2016: to tell the untold stories in the under-served parts of our region. On June 17, 2016, the ReSource published […] By Jeff Young Jun 17 Resource Shift Five Years Of The Ohio Valley ReSource Jeff Young
May 6 Impact Ohio Valley ReSource Work Recognized With Regional Murrow Awards Ohio Valley ReSource reporters and their colleagues at partner stations won two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association, or RTDNA, which is the world’s largest professional organization devoted to broadcast and digital journalism. The winning stories focused on a Kentucky town in a moment of reckoning over its racist […] By Staff May 6 Impact Ohio Valley ReSource Work Recognized With Regional Murrow Awards Staff
Apr 20 Energy & Environment Mine Workers’ Leader Wants To Save Last Coal Jobs As Biden Tackles Climate United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said he’s been hearing the term “just transition” tossed around for more than 20 years as part of the long-running, nearly Sisyphean discussion about climate change, clean energy, and coal country. Simply put: he’s not a fan. “I ask anybody who has been uttering those two words […] By Jeff Young Apr 20 Energy & Environment Mine Workers’ Leader Wants To Save Last Coal Jobs As Biden Tackles Climate Jeff Young
Nov 23 Health Lawmakers, Union Urge Mine Safety Regulators to Act on Silica Dust A group of Ohio Valley senators says a watchdog agency’s recent report shows that federal regulators must do more to protect coal miners from silica dust, an especially toxic form of dust created when mining equipment cuts into rock layers near coal seams. In a Monday morning press release, six Democratic senators, including Joe Manchin […] By Sydney Boles Nov 23 Health Lawmakers, Union Urge Mine Safety Regulators to Act on Silica Dust Sydney Boles
Nov 16 Health Federal Watchdog Finds Coal Safety Regulator Not Protecting Miners From Silica Dust The Mine Safety and Health Administration is not doing enough to protect coal miners from deadly silica dust, according to a new report from the Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General. The IG found that MSHA’s standards for exposure to deadly silica dust were out of date, and MSHA lacked the ability to […] By Sydney Boles Nov 16 Health Federal Watchdog Finds Coal Safety Regulator Not Protecting Miners From Silica Dust Sydney Boles
Oct 25 Energy & Environment Ohio Valley Coal Mine Executive Bob Murray Dead at 80 Robert E. Murray, the founder and former president and CEO of Murray Energy Corp., formerly the largest privately-held underground coal company in the country, has died. He was 80 years old. Murray’s death was reported Sunday evening by television stations WTOV9 in Steubenville, Ohio, and WOWK in Huntington, West Virginia. According to the news outlets, […] By Brittany Patterson Oct 25 Energy & Environment Ohio Valley Coal Mine Executive Bob Murray Dead at 80 Brittany Patterson
Oct 23 Democracy & Civic Life From Appalachia To Wyoming: Youth From Coal Country Discuss The Future After Coal On a recent Saturday, over Zoom, a group of seven high schoolers from Wyoming, eastern Kentucky and West Virginia gazed at an image of a gleaming, pale blue, coal-fired power plant. “OK, so this one really interested us,” said Sarah Belcher, a senior from eastern Kentucky. “So we noticed your all’s coal facilities, they’re really […] By Brittany Patterson Oct 23 Democracy & Civic Life From Appalachia To Wyoming: Youth From Coal Country Discuss The Future After Coal Brittany Patterson
Oct 23 Health Health Insurance For More Than A Million Ohio Valley Residents At Stake In Affordable Care Act Challenge When the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to move forward with President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Senate Democrats boycotted. In their places stood poster-sized photos of people the senators said would lose health care coverage if the court strikes down the Affordable Care Act. With just a little more than […] By Corinne Boyer Oct 23 Health Health Insurance For More Than A Million Ohio Valley Residents At Stake In Affordable Care Act Challenge Corinne Boyer