For 130 years now, were been told over and over again that coal is good for Kentucky, but the numbers till a different story. More than 7.8 billion tons of coal have been mined here in that time. But despite the extraction of vast mineral wealth from our land, Kentucky continues its uphill struggle to provide a decent living, a good education, and a clean environment for its people. And the counties of the easter coalfields, with the richest natural reasources of all, remain one of the poorest states.


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