For nearly a decade, hundreds of families have pinned their hopes for accountability in the nation's largest industrial disaster – the 2008 coal ash spill at the Kingston coal-fired power plant in ...

The Chattanooga Daily Times headline on Tuesday, July 21, 1891, ‘The Coal Creek War the Sole Topic of Discussion Yesterday’, reflected the impact of the regional conflict between coal miners, prison ...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to expand its federal coal ash rule to apply to hundreds of previously exempted disposal sites, increasing protections for local communities living near coal ...

ROCKY TOP, Tenn. (WATE) — A rich history of a bygone era in Anderson County is on display in the town of Rocky Top, originally known as Coal Creek. A unique museum shows what life was like when coal ...

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave ...

The armed conflict between coal miners and coal mine owners was triggered by the owners’ decision to replace private labor, i.e., the miners, with contracted convict laborers furnished by the ...