Former ranch hand Pat Thiele has spent years fighting a losing battle against a massive coal mine creeping underground toward ...

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.

Klotter’s 1996 book entitled, A New History of Kentucky, described the miner workers’ plight which led to the Evarts (Harlan County) Coal Miners’ war in 1931. The membership of Kentucky coal ...

Earl was born in the coal mining town of Lynch in Harlan County, Kentucky. His parents ... Earl served in combat during the Vietnam War. Among his numerous commendations, Earl received a Bronze Star ...

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Outside an underground mine tour in Harlan County, a big sign in the parking ... (Scott Olson/Getty Images) As the story goes here, a war on coal was declared by former President Barack Obama.

Eighty-two men, including some inspectors, killed at Poston Mine in Athens County ... Harlan, and Hazard. The world clamored for coal to feed its industrial production and war-making capacity ...

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 ...

Johnson asked Congress to declare war on poverty ... David Estep, of Harlan County, worked in the coal industry for 15 years before being laid off in 2019. He retrained to be a utility lineman.