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Jimmy Moore

The Black Lung Association Responds to the Deadly Disease’s Rise

Workers Push for Pay After Bankruptcy

recycling plastic

Pushing Back Against Plastics

person by tree

Giants of the Smokies

black and white graphic with skeleton wearing miner hat, text reads "black lung kills"

Bankruptcies Highlight Concerns with Black Lung Benefits Fund

slime mold

The Intelligence of Slime Mold

Play Bears Witness to Knoxville’s Red Summer, 100 Years Later

A Pilot Program’s Uncertain Record

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The Unresolved Problem of Abandoned Mine Lands

Reclamation 101