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Alex Weld of Generation West Virginia shares perspective on the opportunity for West Virginia to attract new residents now.

A new bill in West Virginia will leverage federal infrastructure invesments to support grant writing and matching funds requirements for local communities.

Wyoming communities bracing for coal production downturns and coal-fired power plant closures will receive support from assorted federal “revitalization” grant programs, despite being shut out of the initial round of funding in December, according to the leader of President Joe Biden’s coal communities effort.

Federal abandoned mine lands investments in Utah have communities thinking of how to create sustainable developlment and leverage their unique assets amid coal closures.

Seeking federal funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the Appalachian Climate Technologies Coalition launched last month in Huntington to spur economic development and build more resilient communities across southern W.Va.

Advocates for communities seeking a piece of the hundreds of billions of dollars in new assistance worry that the process may be "too weighty, too heavy and too full of bureaucracy."

West Virginia delegates created a new committee to develop policy recommendations intended to revitalize the state’s communities left reeling by the coal industry’s decline.

Communities devastated by the collapse of U.S. coal production are also losing their bank branches, removing a catalyst for economic transition when it is most needed.

After decades of relying on coal for their workforce, tax base and way of life, towns face uncertain futures as new state and national legislation forces the retirement of fossil fuels because of the worsening effects of human-caused climate change.

Community organizations across the mesas and mountains are grappling with the transition happening as coal employment continues to decline.