With massive coal reserves acting as a natural charcoal filter, West Virginia used to be famous ... by nearby mountaintop coal removal mining. Not only was mining taking away their charcoal ...

10 Mine. James Kotcon, chairman of the Sierra Club’s West Virginia chapter ... mess you make,” Kotcon said in a statement.

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The coal industry ... in the state of West Virginia and has for decades. Most West Virginians have a coal miner or two somewhere in the family and in a lot of cases, mining runs through several ...

She’s from a coal mining family in Summersville, West Virginia. She says it’s not too late for the state to reinvent itself, like she has. “Back home where I’m from there’s a town next ...