West Virginia’s coal culture runs deep. It is also evolving.
Posted on AllSides February 6th, 2020
From The Center
West Virginia’s identity is tied closely to the black mineral that literally powered America’s rise as an industrial nation. Now, pride in that tradition is being tested by shifting economic realities.
Walking on the two-lane road that loops behind the Longview plant – West Virginia’s newest and cleanest coal-fired power facility – Steve Nelson and his boss had what he describes as a “slow epiphany.”
“Why fight with this?” he recalls asking about the relentless competition from natural gas. Now, on the same road where that discussion took place two...
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