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Report calls for improvements to coal mine bonding in Central Appalachian states

April 17, 2018

Coal mine bonding programs in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee require improvements that state and federal agencies should make to better protect communities, the environment and the region's economic future, a report by the Alliance for Appalachia finds.

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Harlan Countians to host national Poor People's Campaign leaders

Kentuckians are joining the national call for a moral revival

March 26, 2018
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Kentuckians call on Sen. Mitch McConnell to help coalfield communities

RECLAIM Act would provide a boost to economic development projects

March 14, 2018

Kentuckians held an action outside the Lexington office of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell today asking him to waste no more time in passing legislation to direct more than $100 million to economic and community development projects in communities hardest hit by the decline in coal mining.

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