This is a brief and comprehensive review of many scientific studies describing the environmental and health consequences of mountaintop coal mining in Central Appalachia.
This handout gives an overview of what types of clean energy resources exist in Kentucky and has a map that details where renewable energy installations have already taken place in our state.
Gives information about clean energy success stories in Kentucky and describes how a large pool of grant money that went to counties for clean energy work was used.
This paper gives a broad overview of how to make the case for the Clean Energy Opportunity Act with legislators. It provides useful graphics, facts and citations.
Gives us information about how, by tapping into our clean energy resources and building on existing momentum, we can curb energy costs and get our economy back on track. Also offers several Kentucky clean energy success stories.
This study estimates that the mining, transporting and burning of coal results in $75 billion annually in public health costs in Appalachian communities, with a majority of those impacts resulting from increased health care costs, injury, and death.
This study found that mountaintop mining is linked with increased community cancer risk. Self-reported rates of cancer were higher in a WV county with mountaintop coal mining than in a similar, nearby Appalachian county without large scale strip mining.
