Lifelong Harlan County resident Priscilla Stephens ... a development that many blame on Obama’s “war on coal” and the EPA’s tightening of environmental standards.

When I heard news of the coal miners’ railroad blockade in Harlan County, I knew it presented a real chance for ... one of which resulted in anti-war veteran Brian Willson losing his legs in 1987. In ...

It's part of what critics like C.V. Bennett III call President Obama's "war on coal." Bennett's family has been running mines in Harlan County for 102 years. But unless the government backs off ...

Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once ... Sizemore had left another coal job and his family behind in Harlan County, 300 miles away. Union miners at the Highland mine were ...

HARLAN COUNTY, KY (Reuters ... Senator Mitch McConnell says are victims of an Obama administration "war on coal" - hammered by onerous regulations on coal-fired utilities and a president ...

Harlan County still has many active mines ... He made regular appearances there, promising to end the “war on coal” by reopening closed plants and reinvigorating the industry.

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18 ... an industry he says has been in decline since World War II. "Our vision here is 'coal and.' It can be 'coal and tech.' It can be 'coal and manufacturing.' ...

In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their ...

Despite lungs choked with coal dust, Fields ... Between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II, Harlan County’s population grew nearly eight-fold, to a peak of 75,275. Today, it’s around ...

HARLAN COUNTY, KY, June 4 (Reuters ... Senator Mitch McConnell says are victims of an Obama administration "war on coal" - hammered by onerous regulations on coal-fired utilities and a president ...