Appalachian fall
New carbon regulations will make life harder still for a beleaguered region
THE McCoy Elkhorn mining complex straddles the border of Pike and Floyd counties in eastern Kentucky. It has underground and surface mines, as well as coal-processing plants and a section of freight rail lines, onto which mined coal can be directly loaded. If you pull to the side of Airport Road in Pikeville and look over the guardrail, you see huge trucks with empty beds sitting beneath a conveyor belt, waiting for coal from the underground mine.
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