West Virginia's New River Gorge National Park is home to a unique mining town, which, while long shuttered, is still open for ...

From 2015 through 2020, a personal research project included my reading dozens of jazz books and related media. They included mainstays such as the massive reference The Penguin Guide to Jazz ...

A few years back, I found myself on a train departing White River Junction, Vermont. While the station was not staffed by ...

With coal largely being supplanted by natural gas as the fossil fuel of choice for the electric-producing industry, growth in ...

The entertainment industry has a history of portraying fossil fuels as immoral and destructive. But when a transgender woman ...

The demise of the coal industry left the US Appalachian region in tatters, with lost jobs, spoiled water and countless miles of abandoned underground mines. Now entrepreneurs are eyeing the rural ...