The abandoned-mine-land law is also being used to finance water projects in areas of Kentucky affected by coal mining. A greater landmark of Carter’s term was ratification of the treaty giving ...

The death of 100-year-old former US President Jimmy Carter triggered a wave of tributes ... and a 16-month strike at the Blue Diamond Coal Company in Stearns, Kentucky, where 110 miners and ...

Keeping an eye on every nickel is Justice’s most concerned creditor – publicly-traded Carter Bankshares ... James Sr. co-founded Ranger Fuel to mine coal in the early 1960s and then sold ...

“We need,” he declared, “to shift to plentiful coal.” Yes, conservationist Carter still lusted after coal, and his ardor continued to grow as his term — and the energy crisis — wore o ...

But Carter also promoted domestic coal mining. The subsequent growth of that industry contributed to the warming climate the world is experiencing now. Shortly after Carter took office in 1977 ...

In 1978, Carter came back to West Virginia and announced the creation of the President’s Commission on the Coal industry. “West Virginia alone could supply all the needs for our entire country ...

We’ll have a crash program to build more nuclear plants, strip‐mine and burn more coal, and drill more offshore wells than if we begin to conserve right now.” Yet Carter also tempered this message ...