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

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership are turning former Appalachian coal mines into clean ... across 360 acres in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.