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One district has garnered $1 million annually from wind energy, enough to hire 18 new staffers who are helping turn around a trend in which dropout rates were growing.

“The fact is the current business market for coal-based energy is simply no longer sustainable,” an influential state legislator said. “We must be proactive in helping those communities that this will adversely effect.”

The government has committed to investing $44.4 billion in broadband, transportation infrastructure, and placement of national offices and research institutions in coalfield communities.

As hundreds of workers lose their jobs this months and hundreds more face layoff this winter, the fallout “points to the need to help workers impacted in the transition away from fossil fuels.”

"The regions can use the financial support to boost the economy in a wide range of areas, such as business-related infrastructure, improving public transport, broadband infrastructure, environmental protection and landscape management.”

Two entrepreneurs are developing a housing complex that will rely on cheap rooftop solar power and include strict energy-efficiency standards to keep rents affordable for lower-income tenants.

“TVA’s nine-member board offered sympathy Wednesday, but nothing else.” More than 400 workers were poisoned by coal-ash cleanup work, according to court records.

As coal industry executives thrive—and as the president raises millions of campaign dollars in states like West Virginia—the Trump administration had done little to alleviate the plight of miners.

“Wind energy has been and will continue to be a boon for rural America, providing financial incentives for family farms, broadening tax bases to support stronger communities, and creating jobs for hardworking Americans.”

A deal geared mainly to see that an outside company is approved for a $5.8 million research grant has the city of Farmington taking on credit-rating and reputational risk