Coal mining operations take up a lot of space. Even if they are taken out of commission, they still lie there, dormant.

That means inventorying and packaging sites in a similar fashion ... to build solar projects on former coal mine lands in Southwest Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, and Eastern Kentucky that fall ...

Among them is The Copper Basin Mining District site in Tennessee, just north of the ... of Pennsylvania on reclaiming 1,500 acres of former coal mining sites that are now managed as state game ...

As President Trump pledges to revive “beautiful” coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...

This is a rendering of the Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project, a hydropower facility being built on the site of a former coal mining operation. Source: Rye Development Kentucky Democratic Gov.

The proposed Lewis Ridge Project would build a closed-loop pumped storage hydropower facility on the site of a former coal mine in Bell County, Ky. At the site of a former coal mine in Appalachian ...