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Friends of Coal - Kentucky Coal and the people who mine it keep the lights on in Kentucky. Education & community.

The Friends of Coal is a volunteer organization dedicated to educating the public about the importance of coal!

Western Kentucky has its first share of abandoned mine land revitalization money. Three projects, $6.6 million: a CT sca...
10/02/2026

Western Kentucky has its first share of abandoned mine land revitalization money. Three projects, $6.6 million: a CT scanner for the emergency department at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madisonville, manufacturing and welding equipment for a new regional training facility in Muhlenberg County, and workforce training equipment at Madisonville Community College.

A pilot load of Powder River Basin coal has gone to Vietnam, moved by Union Pacific through the United States and Mexico...
09/28/2026

A pilot load of Powder River Basin coal has gone to Vietnam, moved by Union Pacific through the United States and Mexico before it ever reached a ship. Peabody put the shipment together and the governor of Wyoming turned up to mark it. New markets do not open all at once. They open one cargo at a time.

Coal tar came off the gasworks as a black sludge nobody wanted. Then chemists started pulling things out of it, and the ...
09/25/2026

Coal tar came off the gasworks as a black sludge nobody wanted. Then chemists started pulling things out of it, and the German dye companies went looking for what else was in there. One of those companies was Bayer. In 1897 a chemist there produced a stable form of acetylsalicylic acid, and two years later they registered the name aspirin.

EPA has repealed the rule that would have closed most of America's coal plants. It comes at a point when the grid's own ...
09/23/2026

EPA has repealed the rule that would have closed most of America's coal plants. It comes at a point when the grid's own reliability regulator says 13 of its 23 assessment areas face resource adequacy problems over the next ten years. Those plants are staying.

Coal often moves by rail, and in the coalfields the tracks run right through town. This week is See Tracks? Think Train ...
09/21/2026

Coal often moves by rail, and in the coalfields the tracks run right through town. This week is See Tracks? Think Train Week, the tenth one, and the ask is simple: expect a train, every time, at every crossing. A train at track speed needs about a mile to stop. It cannot swerve and it cannot stop for you.

A miner in eastern Kentucky once reported finding real wood in a seam. What he had was a coal ball — a lump where the pe...
09/18/2026

A miner in eastern Kentucky once reported finding real wood in a seam. What he had was a coal ball — a lump where the peat turned to stone before it could turn to coal, so the plants inside were preserved cell by cell instead of being flattened. Geologists have rebuilt whole forests from them. A nuisance to cut through, and the best record we have of what grew here.

In 1972 engineers in northern Illinois put 246,000 cubic yards of coal fly ash under 7,500 feet of expressway embankment...
09/16/2026

In 1972 engineers in northern Illinois put 246,000 cubic yards of coal fly ash under 7,500 feet of expressway embankment, to see whether it would hold. Fifty-four years of monitoring later, there is no evidence of settlement, frost damage or capillary rise. The road is still on it.

A lot of coal leaves the mine on a truck. This week is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, the 38th one, and in the...
09/14/2026

A lot of coal leaves the mine on a truck. This week is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, the 38th one, and in the coalfields that means the haul-road drivers who run the same narrow grades in every kind of weather, and the over-the-road drivers who take it the rest of the way. If you passed one on a two-lane this morning, that was somebody's whole day.

Twenty-five years ago today. We remember the nearly 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and ...
09/11/2026

Twenty-five years ago today. We remember the nearly 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and aboard United Flight 93 — and the firefighters, police officers and paramedics who went in after them. Never forgotten.

Five railroad trestles built in 1906 to haul coal out of Minden, West Virginia, are being rebuilt this month — not for c...
09/09/2026

Five railroad trestles built in 1906 to haul coal out of Minden, West Virginia, are being rebuilt this month — not for coal trains, but for hikers. The $11.8 million project will make the Rend Trail the first fully accessible earthen trail in New River Gorge National Park. The trail carries the name of Paddy Rend, the operator who opened the Minden mines. The money comes from a federal fund fed partly by coal leases.

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Lexington, KY
40503

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