Prairie Rivers Network and the Sierra Club Illinois announced a lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority to block the ...

(Reuters) -The Trump administration said it permitted a proposed coal mine in Claiborne County, Tennessee on Tuesday under an expedited process aimed at accelerating federal environmental reviews of ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority gave the green light to Sugar Camp Energy to mine thousands of acres of TVA-owned coal.

Jessica Waller Downs remembers her parents, Ernest and Patsy Hickman, who she says died following exposure to coal ash after ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Interior Department said Wednesday it is designating nearly 75,000 acres or more than 550 miles of mountain ridgelines in east Tennessee as unsuitable for future surface ...

Nyrstar, a company who owns several East Tennessee mines and a zinc smelter in Clarksville, plans to sell their mines and a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mountaintop removal coal mining will not be banned in Tennessee, at least not for now. A bill proposing to stop the practice failed in a state senate committee today.The legislation ...

The armed conflict between coal miners and coal mine owners was triggered by the owners’ decision to replace private labor, i.e., the miners, with contracted convict laborers furnished by the ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Following the death of a mine worker in East Tennessee, 6 News is taking a closer look at the dangers of the job. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office reported that ...

The Chattanooga Daily Times headline on Tuesday, July 21, 1891, ‘The Coal Creek War the Sole Topic of Discussion Yesterday’, reflected the impact of the regional conflict between coal miners, prison ...